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Cannabis Prohibition in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1980s

How Cold War politics, structural adjustment, and UN drug treaties shaped a decade of harsh cannabis enforceme...

9 sources 2 months ago

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.

9 sources 2 months ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Western Europe during the 2000s

How Western European nations enforced cannabis bans in the 2000s, with varying legal frameworks and enforcemen...

12 sources 1 week ago

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...

11 sources 3 months ago

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...

13 sources 4 months ago

Cannabis Prohibition in the Middle East During the 1960s

How Cold War politics, tourism, and UN treaties transformed hashish from a regional staple into a criminalized...

9 sources 2 months ago

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...

10 sources 3 months ago

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...

7 sources 3 months ago

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...

11 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis Prosecution in North Africa During the 1990s

How Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt enforced cannabis laws during a decade of structural adjustment, Isla...

12 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis Prosecution in Southeast Asia During the 1940s

How wartime occupation, colonial drug regimes, and postwar nation-building shaped cannabis enforcement across...

8 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis Prosecution in Southeast Asia During the 1980s

How a decade of drug-war escalation in ASEAN states produced some of the world's harshest cannabis laws and en...

12 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Prosecution in Western Europe During the 1980s

How Western European nations shifted toward stricter enforcement and international drug control during the 198...

17 sources 2 weeks ago

Cannabis Prosecution in the Caribbean During the 1930s

How British colonial governments criminalized ganja in Jamaica, Trinidad, and beyond, targeting Indo-Caribbean...

9 sources 4 months ago

Cannabis Prosecution in the Caribbean During the 1960s

How colonial-era ganja laws hardened into aggressive 1960s enforcement across Jamaica, Trinidad, and the wider...

12 sources 2 months ago

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...

11 sources 4 months ago

Cannabis Prosecution in the Middle East During the 1990s

How drug enforcement, regional politics, and international pressure reshaped cannabis law across the Middle Ea...

11 sources 4 days ago

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...

19 sources 4 months ago

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...

7 sources 4 months ago

Cannabis Regulation in North Africa in the 1910s

How French and British colonial administrations tightened kif and hashish controls across the Maghreb and Egyp...

6 sources 2 months ago

Cannabis Trafficking in East Asia During the 1990s

A decade defined by harsh prohibition, small-scale smuggling, and the quiet persistence of regional cultivatio...

10 sources 2 months ago

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...

7 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis Trafficking in Eastern Europe During the 20th Century

A sparse and contested history of hemp cultivation, Soviet-era prohibition, and post-1989 smuggling routes acr...

8 sources 2 months ago

Cannabis Trafficking in Mexico During the 1960s

How the U.S. counterculture boom, Operation Intercept, and Sinaloan smuggling networks reshaped the North Amer...

9 sources 1 month ago