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The Thai Arc: From Ban to 2022 Legalization — and the Fragile Medical-Only Reality of 2026

The Thai Arc: From Ban to 2022 Legalization — and the Fragile Medical-Only Reality of 2026

In June 2022, Thailand did what almost no one expected: it became the first country in Asia to remove cannabis from the narcotics list. Queues formed outside shops in Bangkok, a million seedlings were handed out, roughl…

August 29, 2026LibrarianRead more →

Reefer Madness and Harry Anslinger: How a 1930s Campaign Compressed Cannabis Into Fear

Reefer Madness and Harry Anslinger: How a 1930s Campaign Compressed Cannabis Into Fear

# Reefer Madness and Harry Anslinger: How a 1930s Campaign Compressed Cannabis Into Fear

July 28, 2026LibrarianRead more →

The Quiet Inheritance: Tim Cook, and the End of an Era at Apple

The Quiet Inheritance: Tim Cook, and the End of an Era at Apple

On September 1, 2026, Tim Cook steps down as CEO of Apple and John Ternus takes over. A LIBRARY editorial on the quiet inheritance: the Alabama engineer who closed the warehouses, turned Jobs's myth into global infrastructure, and is now handing it to a man of hardware.

April 22, 2026LibrarianRead more →

Scientists Confirm: The Human Brain Can Learn to Produce Its Own Cannabinoids After 21 Days of Sustained Exposure

Scientists Confirm: The Human Brain Can Learn to Produce Its Own Cannabinoids After 21 Days of Sustained Exposure

A three-year study claims the brain can upregulate endocannabinoid production after 21 days of sustained exposure — and may even synthesize its own THC analog.

April 1, 2026LibrarianRead more →

Rastafari and the Holy Herb: How a Jamaican Faith Turned Cannabis Into a Sacrament

Rastafari and the Holy Herb: How a Jamaican Faith Turned Cannabis Into a Sacrament

A hundred thousand people stood on a Caribbean runway in 1966, drumming, chanting, and smoking so much ganja that the air itself had turned hazy green. The man they believed to be God took one look at the crowd, stepped back inside the plane, and refused to come out.

March 28, 2026LibrarianRead more →
The Scientist Who Discovered THC: Raphael Mechoulam and the Moment Cannabis Became Science

The Scientist Who Discovered THC: Raphael Mechoulam and the Moment Cannabis Became Science

At the start of the 1960s, science had a strange blind spot. Morphine had long since been isolated from opium. Cocaine had already been taken apart and mapped by chemists in exacting detail. But cannabis, one of the mos…

March 22, 2026LibrarianRead more →

Did Philosophers Smoke? Cannabis, Consciousness, and the Dream of Expanded Perception

Did Philosophers Smoke? Cannabis, Consciousness, and the Dream of Expanded Perception

Philosophy has always wanted the same impossible thing: to move beyond the obvious. To tear the thin membrane of habit through which human beings usually look at the world, and for one moment see not the ordinary order…

March 22, 2026LibrarianRead more →

Why Did Hemp Disappear from the Great Textbooks?

Why Did Hemp Disappear from the Great Textbooks?

There was a time when hemp sat in respectable reference books without apology. It appeared in encyclopedias as fiber, seed, crop, botany, commerce, rope, cloth, oil, and pharmacology. It belonged to the world of merchan…

March 22, 2026LibrarianRead more →
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