Cannabis Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1930s
Colonial prohibition and League of Nations diplomacy reshaped African cannabis use in the 1930s.
Cannabis Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1970s
From rural tradition to urban visibility and international export during post-independence Africa.
Cannabis Culture in Western Europe During the 1970s
How the 1970s European scene shaped cannabis supply, policy and folklore.
Cannabis Culture in the Caribbean During the 1910s
Ganja arrived with Indian indentured laborers; by 1913, colonial prohibition had begun.
Cannabis Culture in the Caribbean During the 1960s
Ganja in 1960s Jamaica: criminalized plant, working-class staple, Rastafari sacrament, and the roots of reggae...
Cannabis Culture in the Middle East During the 1970s
Lebanese, Afghan and Moroccan hashish production and export networks during a decade of political upheaval and...
Cannabis Culture in the Middle East During the 1990s
Post-civil-war eradication in Lebanon, regional consumption patterns, and the myths that followed.
Cannabis Film in Canada During the 2000s
Canadian filmmakers navigated medical policy, failed decriminalization, and grow-op panic through comedy, docu...
Cannabis Film in South Asia During the 1980s
Exploitation cinema, heroin panic, and the myths that followed.
Cannabis Film in the Caribbean During the 1960s
Cannabis in 1960s Caribbean cinema: more myth than documented film history.
Cannabis Film in the Caribbean during the 1940s
Limited evidence of local cannabis cinema; American and British imports dominated the screen.
Cannabis Film in the United States During the 1990s
How a handful of films normalized cannabis as mundane on-screen behavior.
Cannabis Film in the United States During the 2000s
The rise of studio stoner cinema and its role in shifting cultural attitudes toward cannabis.
Cannabis Indica in Victorian Medicine
Cannabis as a legitimate Victorian therapeutic agent: fifty years of clinical use and gradual decline.
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Canada During the 1950s
Why there was no 1950s cannabis reform movement in Canada, and when it actually began.
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in East Asia During the 1960s
East Asia saw no organized cannabis reform movements in the 1960s; policy tightened instead.
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Eastern Europe During the 1910s
Why the premise of early-20th-century Eastern European cannabis reform is historically inaccurate.
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Eastern Europe During the 2000s
Post-Soviet prohibition and EU integration shaped a prohibitionist decade with one exception.
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Mexico During the 1940s
How prohibition consolidated in Mexico during the 1940s despite medical questions and persistent use.
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in North Africa During the 1990s
A decade of hardening prohibition, not reform—and where the 'legalization' myth originated.
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in South America During the 1930s
Correcting a historical myth: the 1930s were a decade of prohibition, not reform.
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1980s
A decade of prohibition reinforcement, not reform—how the myth developed.
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Western Europe (1900s)
How Western Europe moved from prohibition to toleration—and the myths that grew from it.
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in the Middle East During the 1930s
Regional cannabis policy debates before the global prohibition movement took hold.