Cannabis Prosecution in the United States During the 1990s
How the federal drug war scaled up cannabis arrests to record highs while states quietly began carving out med...
Cannabis Regulation in North Africa During the 1930s
How French and Spanish colonial powers tightened cannabis controls in the Maghreb between the world wars, and...
Cannabis Regulation in North Africa in the 1910s
How French and British colonial administrations tightened kif and hashish controls across the Maghreb and Egyp...
Cannabis Trafficking in East Asia During the 1990s
A decade defined by harsh prohibition, small-scale smuggling, and the quiet persistence of regional cultivatio...
Cannabis Trafficking in Eastern Europe During the 1910s
A look at what we actually know — and don't know — about cannabis movement across Eastern Europe in the decade...
Cannabis Trafficking in Eastern Europe During the 20th Century
A sparse and contested history of hemp cultivation, Soviet-era prohibition, and post-1989 smuggling routes acr...
Cannabis Trafficking in Mexico in the 1980s
How U.S. drug-war pressure, the Guadalajara Cartel, and the murder of a DEA agent reshaped Mexican cannabis sm...
Cannabis Trafficking in North Africa During the 1940s
How wartime disruption, French colonial monopolies, and postwar smuggling networks reshaped the Maghreb kif tr...
Cannabis Trafficking in South Asia During the 1910s
How colonial excise systems, princely state borders, and early international drug diplomacy shaped ganja and c...
Cannabis Trafficking in Southeast Asia During the 1990s
How the Golden Triangle's cannabis trade shifted, contracted, and was reshaped by crackdowns, opium displaceme...
Cannabis Trafficking in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1930s
How colonial anxieties, League of Nations diplomacy, and long-standing regional trade routes shaped African ca...
Cannabis Trafficking in Western Europe During the 1940s
A wartime decade when cannabis smuggling in Western Europe was small, sporadic, and overshadowed by opium and...
Cannabis Trafficking in the Middle East During the 1970s
How Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Afghan hashish routes, and Cold War politics shaped a decade of regional drug comm...
Cannabis Trafficking in the United States During the 1940s
How wartime enforcement, the Marihuana Tax Act, and a brief federal hemp revival shaped the 1940s American can...
Cannabis Use Among U.S. Soldiers in the Vietnam War
How cannabis became a fixture of American GI life in Vietnam, why officials panicked, and why heroin ultimatel...
Cannabis Use in Sufi Orders
How hashish became entwined with medieval Islamic mysticism, what the primary sources actually say, and where...
Cannabis and Bob Marley's Death: Rumor vs. Reality
Bob Marley died of metastatic melanoma in 1981, not from cannabis use — but the myth persists for cultural rea...
Cannabis and Canadian Music in the 1960s
How a small folk and rock scene in Toronto, Montreal, and Yorkville absorbed cannabis culture during Canada's...
Cannabis at Coachella
How the desert music festival became a de facto cannabis showcase despite never officially allowing on-site co...
Cannabis at Glastonbury Festival
A look at how cannabis became part of Britain's biggest festival, from the 1970s free festival era to today's...
Cannabis at the 1839 Bengal Experiments
How Irish physician William O'Shaughnessy's Calcutta trials introduced cannabis to Western medicine and seeded...
Cannabis in 1930s Jazz Lyrics
How Depression-era jazz musicians turned 'reefer,' 'gage,' and 'muggles' into a coded vocabulary that outlived...
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...