Publications Categories: Policy

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After legalization: Cannabis, environmental compliance, and agricultural futures

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Policy Findings & Recommendations Regarding California Cannabis: Farming, Regulation and the Environment

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Ecological Outcomes of Cannabis Legalization: A multidisciplinary study of cannabis land use change, its social drivers, and environmental outcomes

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Cultivating Cannabis, Excepting Cannabis

Deputy from Sierra County sheriff inspects a cannabis farm

Legalization and Prohibition: Breaks, continuities, and the shifting terms of racial-capitalist governance

Photograph of irrigation infrastructure on a cannabis farm. Includes storage tanks, pipes and fertilizer

Cannabis farms in California rely on wells outside of regulated groundwater basins

Photo of cannabis plants in an indoor farm greenhouse being cut by an inspector due to non-compliance with regulation.

Why comply? Farmer motivations and barriers in cannabis agriculture

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Shifting geographies of legal cannabis production in California

Photographed graffiti wall painting of police detaining a person associated with Cannabis.

Prohibited commoning: Cannabis and emancipatory legalization

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Buttressed and breached: The exurban fortress, cannabis activism, and the drug war’s shifting political geography