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Cannabis Literature in 1960s America

How a decade of beat poets, underground newspapers, and pulp paperbacks rewrote the public image of marijuana...

10 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Literature in Australia and New Zealand During the 1900s

A century of pamphlets, parliamentary reports, underground manuals, and academic work that shaped Antipodean c...

8 sources 4 weeks ago

Cannabis Literature in Canada During the 1910s

A look at what Canadians were actually reading and writing about cannabis in the decade before it was criminal...

8 sources 3 weeks ago

Cannabis Literature in East Asia During the 1940s

A look at what was actually written about cannabis in Japan, China, and Korea during a turbulent wartime decad...

9 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Literature in South America During the 1990s

How a sparse but pivotal decade of South American books, zines, and harm-reduction pamphlets laid groundwork f...

8 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Literature in Western Europe During the 1900s

How French decadents, medical journals, and countercultural presses shaped a century of European writing about...

10 sources 2 weeks ago

Cannabis Literature in Western Europe During the 1910s

How pharmacology texts, colonial reports, and literary fragments framed hashish and Indian hemp on the eve of...

9 sources 4 weeks ago

Cannabis Literature in the Caribbean During the 1910s

How colonial commissions, medical journals, and newspaper editorials in the British and Dutch Caribbean framed...

6 sources 1 week ago

Cannabis Literature in the Caribbean During the 1930s

How colonial reports, sensational press, and early ethnographic writing shaped how the British Caribbean wrote...

9 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Literature in the Middle East During the 1900s

How twentieth-century Middle Eastern writers, physicians, and historians documented hashish culture between pr...

7 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Literature in the Middle East During the 1910s

A transitional decade when Arabic and Persian writing on hashish shifted from poetry and pharmacology toward c...

6 sources 2 months ago

Cannabis Literature in the Middle East During the 1960s

How Beat writers, ethnographers, and Lebanese hash traders shaped Western cannabis writing during a decade of...

10 sources 2 weeks ago

Cannabis Music in Australia and New Zealand During the 1910s

A search for antipodean cannabis songs from the 1910s turns up almost nothing — and that absence is itself the...

10 sources 2 weeks ago

Cannabis Music in East Asia During the 1990s

A brief look at how cannabis references appeared in East Asian popular music during the 1990s, and why the rec...

7 sources 1 week ago

Cannabis Music in Mexico During the 1910s

How the Mexican Revolution era produced 'La Cucaracha' and other folk songs that embedded marihuana into popul...

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Cannabis Music in North Africa During the 1930s

How kif-themed chaabi and Andalusian songs from Morocco and Algeria documented hashish culture during the Fren...

7 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Music in South Asia During the 1970s

How devotional bhajans, Bollywood charas anthems, and Western hippie crossover shaped a decade of cannabis-cod...

7 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Music in Southeast Asia During the 1980s

A look at what's actually documented about cannabis-themed music in 1980s Southeast Asia, versus what's been r...

9 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Music in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1910s

What we actually know — and don't know — about cannabis-themed song traditions in sub-Saharan Africa during th...

6 sources 4 weeks ago

Cannabis Music in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1960s

How dagga, diamba, and bangi found their way into the lyrics and underground scenes of African popular music d...

7 sources 3 weeks ago

Cannabis Music in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1980s

How reggae's diaspora, roots traditions, and political struggle shaped a decade of African music that openly r...

6 sources 5 days ago

Cannabis Music in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1990s

How African reggae, kwaito, and hip hop scenes engaged with cannabis culture during a decade of political tran...

7 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Music in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 2000s

How reggae, hip hop, kwaito, and Afrobeats artists across the continent made cannabis a recurring theme in 200...

9 sources 4 weeks ago

Cannabis Music in the United States During the 1990s

How hip-hop, alt-rock, and reggae fusion turned weed from countercultural symbol into mainstream pop-music sho...

9 sources 1 month ago