Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Cannabis in the United States
How federal cannabis sentencing became mandatory, then was partially reformed.
Maryland Question 4 (2022)
How Maryland voters approved legalization in 2022, and what happened next.
Massachusetts Question 4 (2016)
The 2016 ballot measure that legalized recreational cannabis in Massachusetts, then was substantially rewritte...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Australia and New Zealand During the 1950s
No organised medical cannabis advocacy emerged in Australia or New Zealand during the 1950s.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Australia and New Zealand During the 1990s
How patient advocacy and harm reduction shaped the 1990s medical cannabis conversation in Australasia.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Australia and New Zealand during the 1940s
The quiet end of cannabis medicine in Australasia, not an era of advocacy.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Canada During the 1920s
Canada criminalized cannabis in 1923 without organized medical opposition or public demand.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Canada During the 1950s
An examination of cannabis prohibition, medical practice, and the myth of 1950s advocacy.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in East Asia During the 1960s
The 1960s East Asian cannabis advocacy movement is a historical myth. The region consolidated prohibition.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Eastern Europe During the 1940s
Examining the absence of organized medical cannabis advocacy in a decade of war and Soviet repression.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Mexico During the 1950s
Why the 1950s were a decade of prohibition consolidation, not medical reform.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Mexico During the 1960s
Why 1960s Mexico had no organized medical cannabis reform movement, despite folklore suggesting otherwise.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Mexico During the 1970s
Why 1970s Mexico had no medical cannabis movement—and how that narrative was later misremembered.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Mexico During the 1980s
Organized medical cannabis advocacy did not exist in 1980s Mexico; prohibition and enforcement dominated the d...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Mexico During the 2000s
NGOs and researchers laid groundwork for later medical cannabis reform amid drug-war violence.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in North Africa During the 1920s
Cannabis medicine in North Africa during the 1920s faced international prohibition efforts, not organized medi...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in South America During the 1910s
Medical cannabis existed quietly in pharmacies; organized advocacy was absent in 1910s South America.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in South America During the 1980s
No organized medical cannabis movement existed in South America during the 1980s despite later myths.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in South Asia During the 1930s
India's defence of cannabis at the League of Nations, revenue interests, and how modern myths took root.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in South Asia During the 1970s
Medical advocacy amid international prohibition, traditional medicine systems, and weak clinical evidence.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in South Asia During the 1990s
The quiet decade before South Asia's cannabis reform movement began in the 2010s.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Southeast Asia During the 1940s
Tracing the legal, medical, and cultural landscape of cannabis in wartime and postwar Southeast Asia.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1970s
How traditional use was conflated with organized advocacy in retrospective cannabis histories.
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1980s
A decade of enforcement, not advocacy: the actual policy story of cannabis in 1980s Sub-Saharan Africa.