Cannabis Laws in Vietnam
Cannabis is illegal in Vietnam for recreational and medical use, with severe penalties including possible deat...
Cannabis Laws in Washington
Washington legalized adult-use cannabis by ballot initiative in 2012 and runs a state-licensed retail market r...
Cannabis Laws in Washington, D.C.
A guide to D.C.'s unusual legal landscape, where possession and gifting are legal but sales remain banned unde...
Cannabis Laws in Wisconsin
Wisconsin remains one of the most restrictive U.S. states on cannabis, with no medical program and criminal pe...
Cannabis Laws in Wyoming
Wyoming remains one of the strictest cannabis states in the U.S., with no legal recreational or broad medical...
Cannabis Laws in the Netherlands
The Dutch tolerate cannabis sales in coffeeshops but never legalized them — a decades-old compromise now being...
Cannabis Laws in the United Kingdom
Cannabis is a Class B controlled drug in the UK, with limited medical access and no legal recreational market...
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Canada During the 1950s
A short answer to a common search: there were essentially no organized legalization efforts in Canada during t...
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in East Asia During the 1960s
A short answer to a common question: there was essentially no meaningful cannabis legalization movement in Eas...
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Eastern Europe During the 1910s
There were essentially none — this article exists to correct a myth and explain what was actually happening wi...
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in North Africa During the 1990s
A look at what actually happened — and didn't happen — around cannabis reform in Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and A...
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in South America During the 1930s
A short answer to a question with a false premise: the 1930s in South America were defined by prohibition, not...
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1980s
A look at what actually happened with cannabis policy in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1980s versus what the i...
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Western Europe (1900s)
How the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and their neighbours moved from prohibition toward tolerance across the tw...
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in the United States During the 1900s
A century of criminalization, backlash, and the slow, uneven return of legal cannabis in America from 1900 to...
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in the United States During the 1970s
The decade cannabis reform came closer to victory than most people realize, then collapsed under political bac...
Cannabis Literature in 1960s America
How a decade of beat poets, underground newspapers, and pulp paperbacks rewrote the public image of marijuana...
Cannabis Literature in Australia and New Zealand During the 1900s
A century of pamphlets, parliamentary reports, underground manuals, and academic work that shaped Antipodean c...
Cannabis Literature in Canada During the 1910s
A look at what Canadians were actually reading and writing about cannabis in the decade before it was criminal...
Cannabis Literature in East Asia During the 1940s
A look at what was actually written about cannabis in Japan, China, and Korea during a turbulent wartime decad...
Cannabis Literature in Mexico During the 1970s
How a decade of drug war escalation and countercultural writing shaped Mexican cannabis discourse in print.
Cannabis Literature in South America During the 1990s
How a sparse but pivotal decade of South American books, zines, and harm-reduction pamphlets laid groundwork f...
Cannabis Literature in South America During the 2000s
How a decade of drug policy debate, activist journalism, and academic research produced a distinctly South Ame...
Cannabis Literature in South Asia During the 1920s
How colonial administrators, Indian physicians, and international treaties shaped the written record of cannab...