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 for Chronic Diarrhea
What the evidence actually says about using cannabis, THC, and CBD to manage chronic diarrhea from various cau...
Cannabis for Hot Flashes
What the evidence actually says about using cannabis to manage menopausal vasomotor symptoms — and what it doe...
Cannabis for IBS-C (Constipation-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
The honest state of evidence on whether cannabis helps constipation-predominant IBS, and where it probably mak...
Cannabis for Jet Lag
There's no direct evidence cannabis treats jet lag, and its effects on sleep architecture may make circadian r...
Cannabis for Muscle Cramps
What the evidence actually says about using cannabis for muscle cramps in MS, ALS, dystonia, and ordinary leg...
Cannabis for Tremor
An honest look at what cannabis can and can't do for essential tremor, Parkinson's tremor, and other movement...
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.
Cannabis in Ayurvedic Medicine
Cannabis appears in classical Ayurvedic texts mainly from the medieval period onward, not from the deep antiqu...
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...