Marijuana’s complicated legal status has created equally complex social systems surrounding the crop.
We ask…
- How has cannabis cultivation changed over time (the past 40 years), and how will it change following increased liberalization in California and abroad?
- How has commercializing legislation affected the agricultural, social, and environmental practices of export-oriented non-legal producers?
- What effect do policy and industrial changes have upon social relations in cannabis-producing communities and through the cannabis commodity chain?
Who participates in cannabis cultivation and under what conditions, and to what extent does participation change across spatial, racial or class-based lines of difference?
Prohibition After Legalization
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Policy and Land Use
Relationships between governments, regulations and growers.
Environment
Effects of cannabis production on water, air and wildlife.
People and Culture
Effects of liberalization and legalization on policy and society.