Cannabis and Unemployment Benefits
How cannabis use, failed drug tests, and state legalization interact with eligibility for unemployment insuran...
Cannabis and Western European Popular Music in the 1970s
How cannabis became woven into European rock, reggae, and progressive music scenes during a decade of cultural...
Cannabis and Workers' Compensation
How U.S. workers' compensation systems handle medical cannabis reimbursement, workplace injuries, and post-acc...
Cannabis and Working Memory
What the evidence actually says about how THC, CBD, and chronic cannabis use affect short-term memory and cogn...
Cannabis and the Developing Brain
What the evidence actually says about cannabis use during adolescence and young adulthood, separated from both...
Cannabis and the Gateway Drug Hypothesis
What the evidence actually says about whether cannabis use leads to harder drug use later in life.
Cannabis at Coachella
How the desert music festival became a de facto cannabis showcase despite never officially allowing on-site co...
Cannabis at Glastonbury Festival
A look at how cannabis became part of Britain's biggest festival, from the 1970s free festival era to today's...
Cannabis at Monterey Pop 1967
The three-day festival that helped mainstream cannabis in American youth culture, and the myths that grew arou...
Cannabis at Music Festivals: A History
How cannabis became inseparable from the modern music festival, from jazz clubs to Woodstock to Coachella.
Cannabis at Woodstock
How the 1969 festival became shorthand for mainstream American cannabis culture, and what the historical recor...
Cannabis at the 1839 Bengal Experiments
How Irish physician William O'Shaughnessy's Calcutta trials introduced cannabis to Western medicine and seeded...
Cannabis for Chronic Diarrhea
What the evidence actually says about using cannabis, THC, and CBD to manage chronic diarrhea from various cau...
Cannabis for Hot Flashes
What the evidence actually says about using cannabis to manage menopausal vasomotor symptoms — and what it doe...
Cannabis for IBS-C (Constipation-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
The honest state of evidence on whether cannabis helps constipation-predominant IBS, and where it probably mak...
Cannabis for Jet Lag
There's no direct evidence cannabis treats jet lag, and its effects on sleep architecture may make circadian r...
Cannabis for Muscle Cramps
What the evidence actually says about using cannabis for muscle cramps in MS, ALS, dystonia, and ordinary leg...
Cannabis for Tremor
An honest look at what cannabis can and can't do for essential tremor, Parkinson's tremor, and other movement...
Cannabis in 1920s America
How marijuana went from an obscure pharmacy ingredient to a racialized moral panic during Prohibition-era Amer...
Cannabis in 1930s Jazz Lyrics
How Depression-era jazz musicians turned 'reefer,' 'gage,' and 'muggles' into a coded vocabulary that outlived...
Cannabis in 1930s South American Film and Media
A look at how cannabis appeared — or mostly didn't — in South American cinema and press during the 1930s prohi...
Cannabis in 1960s American Music
How rock, folk, and soul artists of the 1960s brought marijuana out of the jazz underground and into mainstrea...
Cannabis in 1970s Music
How rock, reggae, funk, and outlaw country put weed at the center of popular music during the decade after Woo...
Cannabis in 19th Century Literature
How French Romantics, American adventurers, and Victorian doctors put hashish on the literary map — and where...