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...
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...
Cannabis Trafficking in Mexico in the 1980s
How U.S. drug-war pressure, the Guadalajara Cartel, and the murder of a DEA agent reshaped Mexican cannabis sm...
Cannabis Trafficking in North Africa During the 1940s
How wartime disruption, French colonial monopolies, and postwar smuggling networks reshaped the Maghreb kif tr...
Cannabis Trafficking in South America During the 2000s
How Paraguay became the continent's cannabis factory and Brazil its largest market during a decade of expandin...
Cannabis Trafficking in South Asia During the 1910s
How colonial excise systems, princely state borders, and early international drug diplomacy shaped ganja and c...
Cannabis Trafficking in Southeast Asia During the 1980s
How Thai stick, Cambodian border routes, and the U.S. drug war reshaped a regional cannabis economy over one t...
Cannabis Trafficking in Southeast Asia During the 1990s
How the Golden Triangle's cannabis trade shifted, contracted, and was reshaped by crackdowns, opium displaceme...
Cannabis Trafficking in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1930s
How colonial anxieties, League of Nations diplomacy, and long-standing regional trade routes shaped African ca...
Cannabis Trafficking in Western Europe During the 1940s
A wartime decade when cannabis smuggling in Western Europe was small, sporadic, and overshadowed by opium and...
Cannabis Trafficking in the Middle East During the 1970s
How Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Afghan hashish routes, and Cold War politics shaped a decade of regional drug comm...
Cannabis Trafficking in the United States During the 1940s
How wartime enforcement, the Marihuana Tax Act, and a brief federal hemp revival shaped the 1940s American can...
Cannabis Trafficking in the United States During the 1950s
How Cold War-era drug panic, the Boggs and Narcotic Control Acts, and a small illicit market defined 1950s Ame...
Cannabis Use Among U.S. Soldiers in the Vietnam War
How cannabis became a fixture of American GI life in Vietnam, why officials panicked, and why heroin ultimatel...
Cannabis Use Disorder
A real DSM-5 diagnosis affecting roughly 1 in 5 regular users, with modest but growing evidence on what actual...
Cannabis Use With Autoimmune Therapy
What the evidence actually says about combining cannabis with biologics, DMARDs, and other immune-modulating d...
Cannabis Use in Adolescence and Psychosis
What the evidence actually says about whether teen cannabis use causes psychotic disorders, and what's still u...
Cannabis Use in Older Adults
What the evidence says about cannabis for people over 65, including pain, sleep, dementia, and drug interactio...
Cannabis Use in Pediatric Autism Research
What the evidence actually says about cannabidiol and whole-plant cannabis extracts for autistic children, sep...
Cannabis Use in Sufi Orders
How hashish became entwined with medieval Islamic mysticism, what the primary sources actually say, and where...
Cannabis Vaporization and Respiratory Effects
What the evidence actually says about inhaling vaporized cannabis versus smoking it, and what it does to your...
Cannabis Withdrawal and Sleep Disruption
Insomnia is the most reliable symptom when regular cannabis users quit, and it's the one most likely to push p...
Cannabis and ADA Protections
Why the federal Americans with Disabilities Act generally does not protect medical cannabis users, and where s...
Cannabis and ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
What the evidence actually says about cannabis for ALS symptoms, disease modification, and quality of life.