Cannabis in 2010s Pop Culture
How the 2010s transformed cannabis from countercultural taboo into mainstream entertainment, branding, and cel...
Cannabis in American Film During the 1920s
The decade when cannabis first appeared on U.S. screens, mostly as an exotic 'hashish' trope rather than the r...
Cannabis in Ancient China
A look at what the archaeological and textual record actually shows about cannabis use in early China, and whe...
Cannabis in Australian and New Zealand Film during the 1920s
A short look at why there is almost nothing to look at — and how retroactive myths filled the silence.
Cannabis in Ayurvedic Medicine
Cannabis appears in classical Ayurvedic texts mainly from the medieval period onward, not from the deep antiqu...
Cannabis in Canadian Music During the 1940s
A short and mostly quiet chapter, shaped more by American jazz imports than by any distinct Canadian marijuana...
Cannabis in Cinema, 1930s–1960s
How Hollywood, exploitation filmmakers, and federal censors shaped the public image of marijuana across four d...
Cannabis in Country Music
How weed became a recurring theme in country songwriting across decades, from outlaw ballads to mainstream hit...
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 Middle Eastern Film, 1900–1999
How Egyptian and Lebanese cinema portrayed hashish across a century of prohibition, war, and cultural change.
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 South Asian Music of the 1980s
How Bhang, ganja, and charas showed up in Bollywood, Indi-pop, and devotional music during a decade of shiftin...