Cannabis Arrests and Racial Disparity in the United States
A century of drug enforcement data showing that cannabis laws have been applied unequally by race, despite sim...
Cannabis Buyers' Clubs of the 1990s
How a network of underground compassion clubs in the United States laid the groundwork for medical cannabis le...
Cannabis Culture in Canada During the 1960s
How a fringe substance became a mainstream youth phenomenon and provoked Canada's first serious rethink of dru...
Cannabis Culture in Eastern Europe During the 2000s
How EU accession, post-Soviet legal shifts, and rising domestic cultivation reshaped cannabis in the former Ea...
Cannabis Culture in Eastern Europe in the 1990s
How the post-Soviet decade reshaped cannabis use, trade, and policy across the former Eastern Bloc.
Cannabis Culture in Mexico During the 1970s
The decade when Mexican cannabis dominated the US market, paraquat spraying began, and 'Acapulco Gold' became...
Cannabis Culture in Mexico During the 2000s
A decade defined by record seizures, the militarized drug war, and a slow shift in public attitudes toward mar...
Cannabis Culture in South America During the 1930s
How a plant carried by enslaved Africans and Indian indentured workers became a target of early prohibition ca...
Cannabis Culture in South America During the 1990s
How democratization, hip-hop, rock en español, and Andean smuggling routes shaped a distinctly South American...
Cannabis Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1900s
How dagga, bangi, and diamba shaped 20th-century African societies under colonial prohibition, labor migration...
Cannabis Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1910s
A decade when centuries-old African cannabis traditions collided with colonial prohibition campaigns and early...
Cannabis Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1920s
How dagga, bhang, and diamba fit into African labor, ritual, and colonial anxieties in a decade that reshaped...
Cannabis Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1930s
How dagga, bangi, and njemu were used, policed, and mythologized across a continent under colonial rule in the...
Cannabis Culture in Western Europe During the 1970s
How hashish from Morocco, Lebanon, and Afghanistan reshaped European youth culture and drug policy in a single...
Cannabis Culture in the Caribbean During the 1910s
How Indian indentured laborers, colonial anxieties, and early prohibition shaped ganja use across the British...
Cannabis Culture in the Caribbean During the 1960s
How ganja moved from Indian indentured laborers' fields to Rastafari sacrament and global counterculture expor...
Cannabis Culture in the Middle East During the 1970s
How Lebanese hash production peaked, Afghan resin reached Western markets, and regional crackdowns reshaped a...
Cannabis Film in the United States During the 2000s
How stoner cinema went mainstream in the 2000s, from Harold & Kumar to Pineapple Express, and what that decade...
Cannabis Indica in Victorian Medicine
How a Bengal-based Irish doctor introduced Indian hemp to British pharmacopoeia, and how it quietly fell out o...
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 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...