Cannabis in Mexican Cinema of the 1940s
How Mexico's Golden Age of film absorbed, romanticized, and occasionally moralized about marihuana during the...
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 Middle Eastern Film, 1900–1999
How Egyptian and Lebanese cinema portrayed hashish across a century of prohibition, war, and cultural change.
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 American Music, 1900–2000
How marijuana moved from Brazilian samba lyrics and Andean folk hints into rock, reggae en español, and the co...
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 South Asian Music of the 1980s
How Bhang, ganja, and charas showed up in Bollywood, Indi-pop, and devotional music during a decade of shiftin...
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 Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1920s: Prohibition, Not Legalization
The 1920s were the decade cannabis was banned across most of Sub-Saharan Africa, not legalized, driven by colo...
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...
Cannabis in Western Europe During the 1940s
A decade when cannabis was largely absent from Western European life, overshadowed by war, occupation, and pre...
Cannabis in Western European Film During the 1910s
A short survey of how hashish appeared on early silent-era screens in Western Europe, and what we actually kno...
Cannabis on the Silk Road
How the plant traveled the trade routes of Eurasia, what the archaeology actually shows, and where the romanti...
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...
Conant v. Walters
The 2002 Ninth Circuit ruling that protected doctors' First Amendment right to recommend cannabis to patients.
Czech Republic Cannabis Decriminalization
How the Czech Republic became one of Europe's most cannabis-tolerant jurisdictions through a series of legisla...
DC Initiative 71 (2014)
The 2014 ballot measure that legalized personal cannabis possession and home cultivation in Washington, DC — b...
DJ Short
American cannabis breeder credited with developing Blueberry and related fruit-flavored cultivars beginning in...
Dennis Peron
The San Francisco activist who turned personal grief into Proposition 215 and helped launch medical cannabis i...