Cannabis Prohibition in the Caribbean During the 1970s
How Cold War politics, US pressure, and Rastafari persecution shaped a decade of harsh ganja laws across the r...
Cannabis Prohibition in the Caribbean During the 1980s
How the U.S. drug war reshaped ganja policy across Jamaica, the Bahamas, Belize, and the wider region during a...
Cannabis Prohibition in the Middle East During the 1960s
How Cold War politics, tourism, and UN treaties transformed hashish from a regional staple into a criminalized...
Cannabis Prohibition in the Middle East During the 1980s
How Gulf states, Egypt, and the wider region hardened cannabis laws in the 1980s under domestic pressure and i...
Cannabis Prosecution in Eastern Europe During the 1960s
How Warsaw Pact states policed cannabis under Soviet-aligned narcotics law during a decade of shifting interna...
Cannabis Prosecution in Eastern Europe During the 2000s
How post-Soviet states tightened drug laws in the 2000s, often pushing small cannabis users into the same crim...
Cannabis Prosecution in North Africa During the 1990s
How Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt enforced cannabis laws during a decade of structural adjustment, Isla...
Cannabis Prosecution in Southeast Asia During the 1940s
How wartime occupation, colonial drug regimes, and postwar nation-building shaped cannabis enforcement across...
Cannabis Prosecution in Southeast Asia During the 1980s
How a decade of drug-war escalation in ASEAN states produced some of the world's harshest cannabis laws and en...
Cannabis Prosecution in the Caribbean During the 1930s
How British colonial governments criminalized ganja in Jamaica, Trinidad, and beyond, targeting Indo-Caribbean...
Cannabis Prosecution in the Caribbean During the 1960s
How colonial-era ganja laws hardened into aggressive 1960s enforcement across Jamaica, Trinidad, and the wider...
Cannabis Prosecution in the Middle East During the 1900s
How Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey criminalized hashish across the twentieth century, and how those laws tr...
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 Public Consumption Rules in Germany
Where, when, and how adults can legally consume cannabis in public under Germany's 2024 Consumer Cannabis Act...
Cannabis Public Consumption Rules in Jamaica
Despite its reputation, Jamaica has not legalized recreational cannabis — public smoking remains a ticketable...
Cannabis Public Consumption Rules in Malta
Malta legalized personal cannabis use in 2021 but public consumption remains prohibited and fineable, with str...
Cannabis Public Consumption Rules in Rhode Island
Rhode Island legalized adult-use cannabis in 2022, but smoking or vaping it in public remains prohibited and c...
Cannabis Public Consumption Rules in South Africa
What South African law actually says about smoking, vaping, or using cannabis outside your own private space,...
Cannabis Public Consumption Rules in Thailand
Thailand delisted cannabis in 2022 but rapidly layered on public-use restrictions and, as of 2024-2025, is mov...
Cannabis Public Consumption Rules in Virginia
Virginia allows adult possession and home use of cannabis but broadly prohibits smoking, vaping, or consuming...
Cannabis Public Consumption Rules in Washington
Washington legalized adult cannabis use in 2012 but banned consumption in public view, with fines and limited...
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 Smoke vs Tobacco Smoke
A look at what the research actually shows when comparing the health effects of smoked cannabis with smoked to...