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Cannabis Music in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 2000s

How reggae, hip hop, kwaito, and Afrobeats artists across the continent made cannabis a recurring theme in 200...

9 sources 2 months ago

Cannabis Music in the United States During the 1990s

How hip-hop, alt-rock, and reggae fusion turned weed from countercultural symbol into mainstream pop-music sho...

9 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis Policy Under the Obama Administration

How a federal enforcement pullback, the Cole Memo, and banking guidance reshaped American cannabis between 200...

15 sources 5 months ago

Cannabis Policy in the Middle East During the 1950s

A decade defined by prohibition crackdowns and international drug treaties, not legalization, despite popular...

9 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis Prohibition and Reform in 20th-Century Mexico

How Mexico went from being the country that exported the word 'marijuana' to one of the earliest nations to pr...

8 sources 2 months ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Australia and New Zealand (1900s)

How two Pacific nations criminalised cannabis with little local evidence of harm, driven mainly by internation...

12 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Eastern Europe During the 1900s

How the Soviet bloc criminalized a plant that had been part of regional agriculture and folk medicine for cent...

11 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Mexico During the 1910s

How revolutionary-era Mexico became one of the first countries in the Americas to ban cannabis, and the myths...

5 sources 2 months ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Mexico During the 1930s

How Mexico formally banned cannabis in 1920 and tightened enforcement through the 1930s, and how a myth about...

6 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Mexico in the 1910s

How revolutionary-era Mexico moved toward a national cannabis ban while folklore about 'marihuana madness' too...

6 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Mexico in the 1920s

Mexico banned cannabis cultivation and sale in 1920, nearly two decades before the United States passed the Ma...

7 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Prohibition in North Africa During the 1990s

How Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt navigated hashish enforcement in a decade of European pressure, struct...

9 sources 1 week ago

Cannabis Prohibition in North Africa During the 20th Century

How colonial monopolies, independence-era nationalism, and Cold War drug treaties turned a centuries-old kif c...

10 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis Prohibition in South America During the 1970s

How Cold War politics, U.S. drug policy pressure, and military dictatorships reshaped cannabis laws across Sou...

13 sources 1 week ago

Cannabis Prohibition in South America During the 1990s

How Andean drug wars, US pressure, and constitutional reforms shaped a decade of contradictory cannabis policy...

12 sources 3 weeks ago

Cannabis Prohibition in South Asia During the 1920s

How the League of Nations, Egyptian diplomacy, and colonial revenue politics collided over ganja, charas, and...

7 sources 1 week ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1980s

How Cold War politics, structural adjustment, and UN drug treaties shaped a decade of harsh cannabis enforceme...

9 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 2000s

How colonial-era bans, UN drug treaties, and rural economies collided across the region between 2000 and 2010.

9 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Prohibition in the Caribbean During the 1970s

How Cold War politics, US pressure, and Rastafari persecution shaped a decade of harsh ganja laws across the r...

11 sources 2 months ago

Cannabis Prohibition in the Caribbean During the 1980s

How the U.S. drug war reshaped ganja policy across Jamaica, the Bahamas, Belize, and the wider region during a...

13 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis Prohibition in the Middle East During the 1960s

How Cold War politics, tourism, and UN treaties transformed hashish from a regional staple into a criminalized...

9 sources 3 weeks ago

Cannabis Prohibition in the Middle East During the 1980s

How Gulf states, Egypt, and the wider region hardened cannabis laws in the 1980s under domestic pressure and i...

10 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Prosecution in Eastern Europe During the 1960s

How Warsaw Pact states policed cannabis under Soviet-aligned narcotics law during a decade of shifting interna...

7 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Prosecution in Eastern Europe During the 2000s

How post-Soviet states tightened drug laws in the 2000s, often pushing small cannabis users into the same crim...

11 sources 2 months ago