bridging continents And cultures
We explore how cannabis intersects with culture, resistance, and identity across the African continent and diaspora. Through storytelling, we celebrate shared histories, creative expression - from music to healing traditions - and the connections that shape our global community.
Explore the Voices Behind the Culture
Clave y Cañamo: Culture Lit from Within
A timeline through how cannabis moved with Afro-Latinx music across decades, shaping revolution, jazz, salsa, and street culture while navigating stigma and state control.
Herbal Elevation in Illmatic: Cannabis, Memory & Black Cultural Ritual
Illmatic stands as a record of early ’90s Queensbridge. Within it, cannabis reads as ritual; carrying a practice that predates prohibition and legalization.
Rhythms of Resistance
How Hip Hop and Cannabis Activism Empower Marginalized Voices in Florianópolis, Brazil, to Challenge Entrenched social Barriers.
Legal For Whom?
A look at Brazil’s two-tier cannabis reality, where elders are jailed for healing themselves while a booming industry profits. This piece traces the racist roots of prohibition and asks who truly benefits from legalization today.
Sierra Leone’s Quiet Trade: Inside the World of Jamba
Trace how Jamba moves through Sierra Leone’s daily life, from farms to backrooms, shaping medicine, survival, and quiet resistance in a country where the law sees only crime.
From 'Muggles' to Hip-Hop: How Cannabis Has Shaped Black Music in the U.S.
Tracing the influence of cannabis in Black American music from the days of Louis Armstrong’s “Muggles” to modern hip-hop, exploring how marijuana became a creative and cultural staple across musical genres from jazz to rap.
