Cannabis in Cinema, 1930s–1960s
How Hollywood, exploitation filmmakers, and federal censors shaped the public image of marijuana across four d...
Cannabis in East Asian Film During the 1930s
A survey of what the historical record actually shows about cannabis on East Asian screens in the 1930s, and w...
Cannabis in Eastern European Film of the 1940s
A short honest answer to a question that assumes a scene that mostly did not exist.
Cannabis in Eastern European Music During the 20th Century
A sparse but real thread of hashish and cannabis references in Balkan, Russian, and Central European music fro...
Cannabis in India: A State-by-State History
From Vedic ritual to colonial commission to modern NDPS Act exemptions, a regionally uneven history of bhang,...
Cannabis in Jazz
How marijuana became woven into early jazz culture, the musicians who championed it, and the moral panic that...
Cannabis in Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley
How a remote agricultural plateau became one of the world's most storied hashish-producing regions, and what's...
Cannabis in Mexican Cinema of the 1930s
How a handful of early Mexican films and the corrido 'La Cucaracha' shaped global folklore about marijuana and...
Cannabis in Mexican Cinema of the 1940s
How Mexico's Golden Age of film absorbed, romanticized, and occasionally moralized about marihuana during the...
Cannabis in Middle Eastern Cinema of the 1960s
How Egyptian and Lebanese filmmakers depicted hashish culture during a decade of crackdowns, smuggling booms,...
Cannabis in Palliative Care
What the evidence actually shows about cannabis for symptom relief at the end of life — and where the science...
Cannabis in Pediatric Epilepsy
Pharmaceutical CBD has real, replicated evidence for specific rare epilepsies; most other cannabis claims in k...
Cannabis in Scythian Burial Mounds
Archaeological and textual evidence for ritual cannabis use by Iron Age steppe nomads, from Herodotus to the P...
Cannabis in South American Music, 1900–2000
How marijuana moved from Brazilian samba lyrics and Andean folk hints into rock, reggae en español, and the co...
Cannabis in South Asian Music of the 1940s
What we actually know — and don't know — about ganja, bhang, and charas references in 1940s subcontinental mus...
Cannabis in Southeast Asian Cinema, 1900s
A short, honest look at how cannabis appeared — and mostly didn't appear — on Southeast Asian screens during t...
Cannabis in Southeast Asian Music of the 20th Century
A look at where cannabis actually shows up in 20th-century Southeast Asian music, and where the story is thinn...
Cannabis in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1960s
How dagga, bhang, and djamba moved from village staple to Cold War contraband as African states gained indepen...
Cannabis in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1920s: Prohibition, Not Legalization
The 1920s were the decade cannabis was banned across most of Sub-Saharan Africa, not legalized, driven by colo...
Cannabis in Tantric Hinduism
How bhang and ganja became woven into Shaiva and Tantric ritual, and what the historical record actually suppo...
Cannabis in The Big Lebowski
How the Coen Brothers' 1998 cult film turned a stoner-noir slacker into one of cinema's most enduring cannabis...
Cannabis in Western Europe During the 1940s
A decade when cannabis was largely absent from Western European life, overshadowed by war, occupation, and pre...
Cannabis on Tribal Lands (United States)
Tribal nations have their own cannabis laws that exist alongside — and sometimes in tension with — federal and...
Cannabis on the Silk Road
How the plant traveled the trade routes of Eurasia, what the archaeology actually shows, and where the romanti...