Cannabis Policy Under the Obama Administration
How a federal enforcement pullback, the Cole Memo, and banking guidance reshaped American cannabis between 200...
Cannabis Policy in the Middle East During the 1950s
A decade defined by prohibition crackdowns and international drug treaties, not legalization, despite popular...
Cannabis Prohibition and Reform in 20th-Century Mexico
How Mexico went from being the country that exported the word 'marijuana' to one of the earliest nations to pr...
Cannabis Prohibition in Australia and New Zealand (1900s)
How two Pacific nations criminalised cannabis with little local evidence of harm, driven mainly by internation...
Cannabis Prohibition in Eastern Europe During the 1900s
How the Soviet bloc criminalized a plant that had been part of regional agriculture and folk medicine for cent...
Cannabis Prohibition in Mexico During the 1910s
How revolutionary-era Mexico became one of the first countries in the Americas to ban cannabis, and the myths...
Cannabis Prohibition in Mexico in the 1910s
How revolutionary-era Mexico moved toward a national cannabis ban while folklore about 'marihuana madness' too...
Cannabis Prohibition in Mexico in the 1920s
Mexico banned cannabis cultivation and sale in 1920, nearly two decades before the United States passed the Ma...
Cannabis Prohibition in North Africa During the 20th Century
How colonial monopolies, independence-era nationalism, and Cold War drug treaties turned a centuries-old kif c...
Cannabis Prohibition in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 2000s
How colonial-era bans, UN drug treaties, and rural economies collided across the region between 2000 and 2010.
Cannabis Prohibition in the Caribbean During the 1970s
How Cold War politics, US pressure, and Rastafari persecution shaped a decade of harsh ganja laws across the r...
Cannabis Prohibition in the Caribbean During the 1980s
How the U.S. drug war reshaped ganja policy across Jamaica, the Bahamas, Belize, and the wider region during a...
Cannabis Prohibition in the Middle East During the 1980s
How Gulf states, Egypt, and the wider region hardened cannabis laws in the 1980s under domestic pressure and i...
Cannabis Prosecution in Eastern Europe During the 1960s
How Warsaw Pact states policed cannabis under Soviet-aligned narcotics law during a decade of shifting interna...
Cannabis Prosecution in Eastern Europe During the 2000s
How post-Soviet states tightened drug laws in the 2000s, often pushing small cannabis users into the same crim...
Cannabis Prosecution in North Africa During the 1990s
How Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt enforced cannabis laws during a decade of structural adjustment, Isla...
Cannabis Prosecution in Southeast Asia During the 1940s
How wartime occupation, colonial drug regimes, and postwar nation-building shaped cannabis enforcement across...
Cannabis Prosecution in the Caribbean During the 1930s
How British colonial governments criminalized ganja in Jamaica, Trinidad, and beyond, targeting Indo-Caribbean...
Cannabis Prosecution in the Middle East During the 1900s
How Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey criminalized hashish across the twentieth century, and how those laws tr...
Cannabis Prosecution in the United States During the 1990s
How the federal drug war scaled up cannabis arrests to record highs while states quietly began carving out med...
Cannabis Regulation in North Africa During the 1930s
How French and Spanish colonial powers tightened cannabis controls in the Maghreb between the world wars, and...
Cannabis Regulation in North Africa in the 1910s
How French and British colonial administrations tightened kif and hashish controls across the Maghreb and Egyp...
Cannabis Trafficking in East Asia During the 1990s
A decade defined by harsh prohibition, small-scale smuggling, and the quiet persistence of regional cultivatio...
Cannabis Trafficking in Eastern Europe During the 1910s
A look at what we actually know — and don't know — about cannabis movement across Eastern Europe in the decade...