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How Depression-era jazz musicians turned 'reefer,' 'gage,' and 'muggles' into a coded vocabulary that outlived...
How rock, folk, and soul artists of the 1960s brought marijuana out of the jazz underground and into mainstrea...
How rock, reggae, funk, and outlaw country put weed at the center of popular music during the decade after Woo...
How the 2010s transformed cannabis from countercultural taboo into mainstream entertainment, branding, and cel...
A look at what the archaeological and textual record actually shows about cannabis use in early China, and whe...
Cannabis appears in classical Ayurvedic texts mainly from the medieval period onward, not from the deep antiqu...
From Vedic ritual to colonial commission to modern NDPS Act exemptions, a regionally uneven history of bhang,...
How marijuana became woven into early jazz culture, the musicians who championed it, and the moral panic that...
How a remote agricultural plateau became one of the world's most storied hashish-producing regions, and what's...
What we actually know — and don't know — about ganja, bhang, and charas references in 1940s subcontinental mus...
A look at where cannabis actually shows up in 20th-century Southeast Asian music, and where the story is thinn...
How dagga, bhang, and djamba moved from village staple to Cold War contraband as African states gained indepen...
How the Coen Brothers' 1998 cult film turned a stoner-noir slacker into one of cinema's most enduring cannabis...
The comedy duo who turned stoner humor into a mainstream cultural force from 1971 onward.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoked Obama-era federal guidance on state cannabis enforcement in January 201...
The voter-approved constitutional amendment that established Colorado's medical cannabis program and laid the...
The 2002 Ninth Circuit ruling that protected doctors' First Amendment right to recommend cannabis to patients.
How the Czech Republic became one of Europe's most cannabis-tolerant jurisdictions through a series of legisla...
The 2014 ballot measure that legalized personal cannabis possession and home cultivation in Washington, DC — b...
American cannabis breeder credited with developing Blueberry and related fruit-flavored cultivars beginning in...
The San Francisco activist who turned personal grief into Proposition 215 and helped launch medical cannabis i...
How AIDS-era buyers' clubs in San Francisco evolved into the country's first legal medical cannabis dispensari...
How a Crusader-era rumor about a Persian sect grew into one of cannabis culture's most enduring and inaccurate...
Examining the popular claim that the first American flags were made of hemp, and what the historical record ac...