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 Trafficking in the United States During the 1950s
How Cold War-era drug panic, the Boggs and Narcotic Control Acts, and a small illicit market defined 1950s Ame...
Cannabis Trafficking in the United States During the 1970s
How Mexican brick weed, Colombian sinsemilla, and the DEA's early campaigns reshaped the American cannabis mar...
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 Monterey Pop 1967
The three-day festival that helped mainstream cannabis in American youth culture, and the myths that grew arou...
Cannabis at Music Festivals: A History
How cannabis became inseparable from the modern music festival, from jazz clubs to Woodstock to Coachella.
Cannabis at Woodstock
How the 1969 festival became shorthand for mainstream American cannabis culture, and what the historical recor...
Cannabis at the 1839 Bengal Experiments
How Irish physician William O'Shaughnessy's Calcutta trials introduced cannabis to Western medicine and seeded...
Cannabis in 1920s America
How marijuana went from an obscure pharmacy ingredient to a racialized moral panic during Prohibition-era Amer...
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...
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 19th Century Literature
How French Romantics, American adventurers, and Victorian doctors put hashish on the literary map — and where...
Cannabis in 2010s Pop Culture
How the 2010s transformed cannabis from countercultural taboo into mainstream entertainment, branding, and cel...
Cannabis in American Film During the 1920s
The decade when cannabis first appeared on U.S. screens, mostly as an exotic 'hashish' trope rather than the r...
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 Australian and New Zealand Film during the 1920s
A short look at why there is almost nothing to look at — and how retroactive myths filled the silence.