Cannabis in 1930s South American Film and Media
A look at how cannabis appeared — or mostly didn't — in South American cinema and press during the 1930s prohi...
Cannabis in 1960s American Music
How rock, folk, and soul artists of the 1960s brought marijuana out of the jazz underground and into mainstrea...
Cannabis in 1970s Music
How rock, reggae, funk, and outlaw country put weed at the center of popular music during the decade after Woo...
Cannabis in 2010s Pop Culture
How the 2010s transformed cannabis from countercultural taboo into mainstream entertainment, branding, and cel...
Cannabis in Ancient China
A look at what the archaeological and textual record actually shows about cannabis use in early China, and whe...
Cannabis in Ayurvedic Medicine
Cannabis appears in classical Ayurvedic texts mainly from the medieval period onward, not from the deep antiqu...
Cannabis in Canadian Music During the 1940s
A short and mostly quiet chapter, shaped more by American jazz imports than by any distinct Canadian marijuana...
Cannabis in Cinema, 1930s–1960s
How Hollywood, exploitation filmmakers, and federal censors shaped the public image of marijuana across four d...
Cannabis in Eastern European Music During the 20th Century
A sparse but real thread of hashish and cannabis references in Balkan, Russian, and Central European music fro...
Cannabis in India: A State-by-State History
From Vedic ritual to colonial commission to modern NDPS Act exemptions, a regionally uneven history of bhang,...
Cannabis in Jazz
How marijuana became woven into early jazz culture, the musicians who championed it, and the moral panic that...
Cannabis in Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley
How a remote agricultural plateau became one of the world's most storied hashish-producing regions, and what's...
Cannabis in Mexican Cinema of the 1930s
How a handful of early Mexican films and the corrido 'La Cucaracha' shaped global folklore about marijuana and...
Cannabis in Middle Eastern Cinema of the 1960s
How Egyptian and Lebanese filmmakers depicted hashish culture during a decade of crackdowns, smuggling booms,...
Cannabis in Scythian Burial Mounds
Archaeological and textual evidence for ritual cannabis use by Iron Age steppe nomads, from Herodotus to the P...
Cannabis in South Asian Music of the 1940s
What we actually know — and don't know — about ganja, bhang, and charas references in 1940s subcontinental mus...
Cannabis in Southeast Asian Cinema, 1900s
A short, honest look at how cannabis appeared — and mostly didn't appear — on Southeast Asian screens during t...
Cannabis in Southeast Asian Music of the 20th Century
A look at where cannabis actually shows up in 20th-century Southeast Asian music, and where the story is thinn...
Cannabis in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1960s
How dagga, bhang, and djamba moved from village staple to Cold War contraband as African states gained indepen...
Cannabis in Tantric Hinduism
How bhang and ganja became woven into Shaiva and Tantric ritual, and what the historical record actually suppo...
Cannabis in The Big Lebowski
How the Coen Brothers' 1998 cult film turned a stoner-noir slacker into one of cinema's most enduring cannabis...
Cheech and Chong
The comedy duo who turned stoner humor into a mainstream cultural force from 1971 onward.
Cole Memo Rescission (2018)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoked Obama-era federal guidance on state cannabis enforcement in January 201...
Colorado Amendment 20 (2000)
The voter-approved constitutional amendment that established Colorado's medical cannabis program and laid the...