Shifting geographies of legal cannabis production in California. Dillis, C., Biber, E., Bodwitch, H., Butsic, V., Carah, J., Parker-Shames, P., Polson, M. and Grantham, T. (2021). Land Use Policy, 105, p.105369. PDF
Growers say cannabis legalization excludes small growers, supports illicit markets, undermines local economies. Bodwitch, H., Carah, J., Daane, K. M., Getz C., Grantham, T. E., Hickey, G. M., & Wilson, H. (2019). California Agriculture. 73(3), 177-184. PDF
Making marijuana an environmental issue: Prohibition, Pollution and Policy. Polson, M. (2019) Environment and Planning: Nature and Space. PDF
Perceptions of cannabis among Humboldt County timberland and ranchland owners. Valachovic, Y., Quinn-Davidson, L., Stackhouse, J. & Butsic, V. (2019). . Calif. Agric., 73, 161–168. PDF
Characteristics of farms applying for cannabis cultivation permits. Schwab, B., Wartenberg, A. & Butsic, V. (2019). Calif. Agric., 73, 128–135. PDF
Inside the Emerald Triangle: Modeling the Placement and Size of Cannabis Production in Humboldt County, CA USA. Butsic, V., Schwab, B., Baumann, M. & Brenner, J.C. (2017). Ecol. Econ., 142, 70–80. PDF
Prohibition and Planning: Marijuana, Development and the Upheaval of Governance in Rural California. Polson, M. (2017.) The Illicit in the Governance and Development of Cities, Regions, and Networks: Corrupt Places. Chiodelli F, Hall T, & Hudson R, Eds. Regions and Cities Series. New York: Routledge. PDF
Cannabis (Cannabis sativa or C. indica) agriculture and the environment: a systematic, spatially-explicit survey and potential impacts. Butsic, V. & Brenner, J.C. (2016). Environ. Res. Lett. IOP Publishing. PDF
Land and Law in Marijuana Country: Clean Capital, Dirty Money, and the Drug War’s Rentier Nexus. Polson, M. (2013.) Illegal Anthropology. Special Issue of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 36(2). pp.215-230. PDF
Cannabis farms in California rely on wells outside of regulated groundwater basins. Dillis, C., Butsic, V., Carah, J., Zipper, S.C. and Grantham, T., (2021). Environmental Research Communications. Page Link.
Cannabis and the Environment: What Science Tells Us and What We Still Need to Know. Wartenberg, A. C., Holden, P. A., Bodwitch, H., Parker-Shames, P., Novotny, T., Harmon, T. C., & Butsic, V. (2021). Environmental Science & Technology Letters. PDF
Coexisting with cannabis: Wildlife response to marijuana cultivation in the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion. P. Parker-Shames, W. Xu, L. Rich, and J. Brashares. (2020). California Fish and Wildlife Journal 106(2) Special Cannabis Issue. PDF
Water storage and irrigation practices associated for cannabis drive seasonal patterns of water extraction and use in Northern California. Dillis, C., McIntee, C., Butsic, V., Le, L. Grady, K., & Grantham, T. (2020). Journal of Environmental Management. 272: 110955. Page link.
Watering the Emerald Triangle: Irrigation sources used by cannabis cultivators in Northern California. Dillis, C., Grantham, T., McIntee, C., McFadin, B. & Grady, K.(2019). California Agriculture. 73(3):146-153. Page link
First known survey of cannabis production practices. Wilson, H., Bodwitch, H., Carah, J., Daane, K., Getz C., Grantham, T. E., & Butsic, V. (2019). California Agriculture. 73(3), 119-127. PDF
The emergence of cannabis agriculture frontiers as environmental threats. Butsic, V., Carah, J., Baumann, M., Stephens, C. & Brenner, J.C. (2018). Environ. Res. Lett. PDF
Cannabis, an emerging agricultural crop, leads to deforestation and fragmentation. Wang, I.J., Brenner, J.C. & Butsic, V. (2017). Front. Ecol. Environ., 15, 495–501. PDF
Cannabis (Cannabis sativa or C. indica) agriculture and the environment: a systematic, spatially-explicit survey and potential impacts. Butsic, V. & Brenner, J.C. (2016). Environ. Res. Lett. IOP Publishing. PDF
High time for conservation: adding the environment to the debate on marijuana liberalization. Carah, Jennifer K., Jeanette K. Howard, Sally E. Thompson, Anne G. Short Gianotti, Scott D. Bauer, Stephanie M. Carlson, David N. Dralle, Mourad Gabriel, Lisa Hulette, Brian J. Johnson, Curtis A Knight, Sarah Kupferberg, Stefanie Martin, Rosamond Naylor, and Mary Power. (2015) BioScience 65, no. 8: 822-829. PDF
Why comply? Farmer motivations and barriers in cannabis agriculture. Bodwitch, Hekia, Polson , Michael, Biber, Eric, Hickey, Gordon M., Butsic, Van. (2021.) In Journal of Rural Studies 86 , 155–170. PDF
Buttressed and breached: The exurban fortress, cannabis activism, and the drug war’s shifting political geography. Polson, Michael. (2020.) In EPD: Society and Space. 0(0) 1-20 journals.sagepub.com/home/epd PDF
Marketing Marijuana: Prohibition, Medicalisation and the Commodity. Polson, Michael. (2018.) In Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era. James Carrier, Ed. European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Series. New York: Berghahn Books. PDF
Prohibition and Planning: Marijuana, Development and the Upheaval of Governance in Rural California. Polson, Michael. (2017.) The Illicit in the Governance and Development of Cities, Regions, and Networks: Corrupt Places. Chiodelli F, Hall T, & Hudson R, Eds. Regions and Cities Series. New York: Routledge. PDF
From Outlaw to Citizen: Police Power, Property, and the Territorial Politics of Medical Marijuana in California’s Exurbs. Polson, Michael. (2015.) Illegal Geographies. Special Issue of Territory, Politics, Governance. 3(4). pp.387-406. PDF
Land and Law in Marijuana Country: Clean Capital, Dirty Money, and the Drug War’s Rentier Nexus. Polson, Michael. (2013.) Illegal Anthropology. Special Issue of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 36(2). pp.215-230. PDF
Why comply? Farmer motivations and barriers in cannabis agriculture. Bodwitch, Hekia, Polson , Michael, Biber, Eric, Hickey, Gordon M., Butsic, Van. (2021.) In Journal of Rural Studies 86 , 155–170. PDF
Cannabis farms in California rely on wells outside of regulated groundwater basins. Dillis, C., Butsic, V., Carah, J., Zipper, S.C. and Grantham, T., (2021). Environmental Research Communications. Page Link.
Shifting geographies of legal cannabis production in California. Dillis, C., Biber, E., Bodwitch, H., Butsic, V., Carah, J., Parker-Shames, P., Polson, M. and Grantham, T. (2021). Land Use Policy, 105, p.105369. PDF
Cannabis and the Environment: What Science Tells Us and What We Still Need to Know. Wartenberg, A. C., Holden, P. A., Bodwitch, H., Parker-Shames, P., Novotny, T., Harmon, T. C., & Butsic, V. (2021). Environmental Science & Technology Letters. PDF
Coexisting with cannabis: Wildlife response to marijuana cultivation in the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion. P. Parker-Shames, W. Xu, L. Rich, and J. Brashares. (2020). California Fish and Wildlife Journal 106(2) Special Cannabis Issue. PDF
Water storage and irrigation practices associated for cannabis drive seasonal patterns of water extraction and use in Northern California. Dillis, C., McIntee, C., Butsic, V., Le, L. Grady, K., & Grantham, T. (2020). Journal of Environmental Management. 272: 110955. Page link.
Buttressed and breached: The exurban fortress, cannabis activism, and the drug war’s shifting political geography. Polson, M. (2020.) In EPD: Society and Space. 0(0) 1-20 journals.sagepub.com/home/epd PDF
Growers say cannabis legalization excludes small growers, supports illicit markets, undermines local economies. Bodwitch, H., Carah, J., Daane, K. M., Getz C., Grantham, T. E., Hickey, G. M., & Wilson, H. (2019). California Agriculture. 73(3), 177-184. PDF
Watering the Emerald Triangle: Irrigation sources used by cannabis cultivators in Northern California. Dillis, C., Grantham, T., McIntee, C., McFadin, B. & Grady, K.(2019). California Agriculture. 73(3):146-153. Page link
First known survey of cannabis production practices. Wilson, H., Bodwitch, H., Carah, J., Daane, K., Getz C., Grantham, T. E., & Butsic, V. (2019). California Agriculture. 73(3), 119-127. PDF
Making marijuana an environmental issue: Prohibition, Pollution and Policy. Polson, M. (2019) environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. Advance online publication. Link
Perceptions of cannabis among Humboldt County timberland and ranchland owners. Valachovic, Y., Quinn-Davidson, L., Stackhouse, J. & Butsic, V. (2019). . Calif. Agric., 73, 161–168. PDF
Characteristics of farms applying for cannabis cultivation permits. Schwab, B., Wartenberg, A. & Butsic, V. (2019). Calif. Agric., 73, 128–135. PDF
The emergence of cannabis agriculture frontiers as environmental threats. Butsic, V., Carah, J., Baumann, M., Stephens, C. & Brenner, J.C. (2018). Environ. Res. Lett. PDF
Marketing Marijuana: Prohibition, Medicalisation and the Commodity. Polson, M. (2018.) In Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era. James Carrier, Ed. European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Series. New York: Berghahn Books. PDF
Inside the Emerald Triangle: Modeling the Placement and Size of Cannabis Production in Humboldt County, CA USA. Butsic, V., Schwab, B., Baumann, M. & Brenner, J.C. (2017). Ecol. Econ., 142, 70–80. PDF
Prohibition and Planning: Marijuana, Development and the Upheaval of Governance in Rural California. Polson, M. (2017.) The Illicit in the Governance and Development of Cities, Regions, and Networks: Corrupt Places. Chiodelli F, Hall T, & Hudson R, Eds. Regions and Cities Series. New York: Routledge. PDF
Cannabis, an emerging agricultural crop, leads to deforestation and fragmentation. Wang, I.J., Brenner, J.C. & Butsic, V. (2017). Front. Ecol. Environ., 15, 495–501. PDF
Cannabis (Cannabis sativa or C. indica) agriculture and the environment: a systematic, spatially-explicit survey and potential impacts. Butsic, V. & Brenner, J.C. (2016). Environ. Res. Lett. IOP Publishing. PDF
High time for conservation: adding the environment to the debate on marijuana liberalization. Carah, Jennifer K., Jeanette K. Howard, Sally E. Thompson, Anne G. Short Gianotti, Scott D. Bauer, Stephanie M. Carlson, David N. Dralle, Mourad Gabriel, Lisa Hulette, Brian J. Johnson, Curtis A Knight, Sarah Kupferberg, Stefanie Martin, Rosamond Naylor, and Mary Power. (2015) BioScience 65, no. 8: 822-829. PDF
From Outlaw to Citizen: Police Power, Property, and the Territorial Politics of Medical Marijuana in California’s Exurbs. Polson, M. (2015.) Illegal Geographies. Special Issue of Territory, Politics, Governance. 3(4). pp.387-406. PDF
Land and Law in Marijuana Country: Clean Capital, Dirty Money, and the Drug War’s RentierNexus. Polson, M. (2013.) Illegal Anthropology. Special Issue of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 36(2). pp.215-230. PDF