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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...

7 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis in 1960s American Music

How rock, folk, and soul artists of the 1960s brought marijuana out of the jazz underground and into mainstrea...

10 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis in 1970s Music

How rock, reggae, funk, and outlaw country put weed at the center of popular music during the decade after Woo...

15 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis in 2010s Pop Culture

How the 2010s transformed cannabis from countercultural taboo into mainstream entertainment, branding, and cel...

16 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis in Ancient China

A look at what the archaeological and textual record actually shows about cannabis use in early China, and whe...

10 sources 4 months ago

Cannabis in Ayurvedic Medicine

Cannabis appears in classical Ayurvedic texts mainly from the medieval period onward, not from the deep antiqu...

10 sources 3 months ago

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...

8 sources 1 week ago

Cannabis in Cinema, 1930s–1960s

How Hollywood, exploitation filmmakers, and federal censors shaped the public image of marijuana across four d...

11 sources 1 month ago

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...

7 sources 1 week ago

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,...

12 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis in Jazz

How marijuana became woven into early jazz culture, the musicians who championed it, and the moral panic that...

8 sources 1 month ago

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...

12 sources 2 months ago

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...

7 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis in Middle Eastern Cinema of the 1960s

How Egyptian and Lebanese filmmakers depicted hashish culture during a decade of crackdowns, smuggling booms,...

7 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis in Scythian Burial Mounds

Archaeological and textual evidence for ritual cannabis use by Iron Age steppe nomads, from Herodotus to the P...

8 sources 1 month ago

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...

5 sources 1 month ago

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...

10 sources 3 weeks ago

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...

10 sources 1 month ago

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...

7 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis in Tantric Hinduism

How bhang and ganja became woven into Shaiva and Tantric ritual, and what the historical record actually suppo...

8 sources 1 month ago

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...

10 sources 2 months ago

Cheech and Chong

The comedy duo who turned stoner humor into a mainstream cultural force from 1971 onward.

9 sources 3 months ago

Cole Memo Rescission (2018)

Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoked Obama-era federal guidance on state cannabis enforcement in January 201...

8 sources 2 months ago

Colorado Amendment 20 (2000)

The voter-approved constitutional amendment that established Colorado's medical cannabis program and laid the...

10 sources 3 months ago