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Cannabis in 1930s Jazz Lyrics

How Depression-era jazz musicians turned 'reefer,' 'gage,' and 'muggles' into a coded vocabulary that outlived...

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Cannabis in 1960s American Music

How rock, folk, and soul artists of the 1960s brought marijuana out of the jazz underground and into mainstrea...

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Cannabis in 1970s Music

How rock, reggae, funk, and outlaw country put weed at the center of popular music during the decade after Woo...

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Cannabis in 2010s Pop Culture

How the 2010s transformed cannabis from countercultural taboo into mainstream entertainment, branding, and cel...

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Cannabis in Ancient China

A look at what the archaeological and textual record actually shows about cannabis use in early China, and whe...

10 sources 2 months ago

Cannabis in Ayurvedic Medicine

Cannabis appears in classical Ayurvedic texts mainly from the medieval period onward, not from the deep antiqu...

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Cannabis in India: A State-by-State History

From Vedic ritual to colonial commission to modern NDPS Act exemptions, a regionally uneven history of bhang,...

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Cannabis in Jazz

How marijuana became woven into early jazz culture, the musicians who championed it, and the moral panic that...

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Cannabis in Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley

How a remote agricultural plateau became one of the world's most storied hashish-producing regions, and what's...

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Cannabis in South Asian Music of the 1940s

What we actually know — and don't know — about ganja, bhang, and charas references in 1940s subcontinental mus...

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Cannabis in Southeast Asian Music of the 20th Century

A look at where cannabis actually shows up in 20th-century Southeast Asian music, and where the story is thinn...

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Cannabis in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1960s

How dagga, bhang, and djamba moved from village staple to Cold War contraband as African states gained indepen...

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Cannabis in The Big Lebowski

How the Coen Brothers' 1998 cult film turned a stoner-noir slacker into one of cinema's most enduring cannabis...

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Cheech and Chong

The comedy duo who turned stoner humor into a mainstream cultural force from 1971 onward.

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Cole Memo Rescission (2018)

Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoked Obama-era federal guidance on state cannabis enforcement in January 201...

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Colorado Amendment 20 (2000)

The voter-approved constitutional amendment that established Colorado's medical cannabis program and laid the...

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Conant v. Walters

The 2002 Ninth Circuit ruling that protected doctors' First Amendment right to recommend cannabis to patients.

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Czech Republic Cannabis Decriminalization

How the Czech Republic became one of Europe's most cannabis-tolerant jurisdictions through a series of legisla...

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DC Initiative 71 (2014)

The 2014 ballot measure that legalized personal cannabis possession and home cultivation in Washington, DC — b...

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DJ Short

American cannabis breeder credited with developing Blueberry and related fruit-flavored cultivars beginning in...

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Dennis Peron

The San Francisco activist who turned personal grief into Proposition 215 and helped launch medical cannabis i...

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First Medical Cannabis Dispensaries in California

How AIDS-era buyers' clubs in San Francisco evolved into the country's first legal medical cannabis dispensari...

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Hashish and the Order of Assassins

How a Crusader-era rumor about a Persian sect grew into one of cannabis culture's most enduring and inaccurate...

10 sources 1 month ago

Hemp in Early American Flags

Examining the popular claim that the first American flags were made of hemp, and what the historical record ac...

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