Cannabis Legalization Efforts in the United States During the 1900s
How cannabis went from legal medicine to Schedule I, and early legalization efforts.
Cannabis Legalization Efforts in the United States During the 1970s
The decade when decriminalization nearly became federal policy before the backlash reversed it.
Cannabis Literature in 1960s America
How Beat writers and underground press shifted cannabis from taboo to public debate.
Cannabis Literature in Australia and New Zealand During the 1900s
From silent prohibition to academic leadership: how Australian and New Zealand writers documented cannabis acr...
Cannabis Literature in Canada During the 1910s
Cannabis in 1910s Canada was a legal pharmaceutical, not a social concern. The cultural panic arrived in the e...
Cannabis Literature in Canada During the 1990s
How Canadian writers, activists, and underground publishers documented cannabis culture and policy debate in t...
Cannabis Literature in East Asia During the 1940s
War, prohibition, and the absence of recreational cannabis literature in 1940s Japan, China, and Korea.
Cannabis Literature in Mexico During the 1970s
Journalism and counterculture writing, not a literary 'cannabis canon,' dominated 1970s Mexico.
Cannabis Literature in North Africa During the 2000s
How Moroccan and Algerian writers documented cannabis use in the early 21st century.
Cannabis Literature in South America During the 1990s
Academic research, harm reduction, and foreign cultivation guides dominated 1990s South American cannabis writ...
Cannabis Literature in South America During the 2000s
How policy scholarship and activist writing prepared South America's drug-law reforms of the 2010s.
Cannabis Literature in South Asia During the 1920s
Administrative reports, Geneva negotiations, and Ayurvedic revival shaped 1920s South Asian cannabis writing.
Cannabis Literature in South Asia During the 1970s
UN pressure, counterculture tourism, and policy compromise defined 1970s South Asian cannabis writing.
Cannabis Literature in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1930s
How colonial reports and League of Nations documents created a durable narrative about African cannabis use.
Cannabis Literature in Western Europe During the 1900s
How European writers engaged cannabis across medicine, philosophy, underground press, and policy—from the 1900...
Cannabis Literature in Western Europe During the 1910s
Medical texts and policy documents replaced literary Orientalism as the dominant frame for European cannabis w...
Cannabis Literature in Western Europe during the 1930s
How international drug control and colonial politics reshaped European cannabis writing in the 1930s.
Cannabis Literature in the Caribbean During the 1910s
Colonial administrators, asylum records, and newspapers drove early Caribbean cannabis prohibition in the 1910...
Cannabis Literature in the Caribbean During the 1930s
Mostly colonial reports and moral-panic journalism; ethnographic study came later.
Cannabis Literature in the Caribbean During the 1950s
Government reports, early Rastafari ethnography, and the colonial narratives that shaped Caribbean cannabis di...
Cannabis Literature in the Middle East During the 1900s
How cannabis became a drug-policy topic in 1900s Middle Eastern writing, medicine, and law.
Cannabis Literature in the Middle East During the 1910s
A decade of diplomatic framing rather than literary innovation around cannabis in the Middle East.
Cannabis Literature in the Middle East During the 1960s
Western writers, academics, and journalists discovered Middle Eastern cannabis in the 1960s—and left behind bo...
Cannabis Literature in the Middle East During the 2000s
Academic revival, journalism, and the myths that took root in early-2000s cannabis historiography.