The Routledge Handbook of Post-Prohibition Cannabis Research

Dominic Corva is Founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social Policy, Co-Director of the Humboldt Institute of Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research at Humboldt State University (HSU), and Cannabis Policy Specialist for the California Center for Rural Policy at HSU. He received his PhD in geography from the University of Washington, Seattle. Joshua S. Meisel is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. He is also a member of the Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium. His research focuses on the sources and consequences of cannabis policy. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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1 Introduction to Post-Prohibition

SECTION 1: GOVERNANCE

2 Notes on a Post-Prohibition Research Agenda
3 Legalization and Prohibition: Breaks, Continuities, and the Shifting Terms of Racial-Capitalist Governance
4 Growing Pains: Marijuana Legalization in Maine
5 Cannabis, Settler Colonialism, and Tribal Sovereignty in California
6 Five years of cannabis regulation: What can we learn from the Uruguayan experience?
7 Medical Cannabis in the UK: the (false) dawn of a new era?

SECTION 2: PUBLIC HEALTH

8 Deep Respect after Profound Neglect: Spiritual Health and Safety for Use of Cannabis and Other Entheogens in an Integrative Public Health System
9 Opioids and Substance Abuse: Cannabis as a Harm Reduction Tool
10 Cannabis in Exercise and Sport
11 Utilizing Community Based Participatory Research in Cannabis Knowledge Formation
12 Health and Safety of Cannabis Workers

SECTION 3: MARKETS AND SOCIETY

13 The Economic Impact of State Regulations and Taxes on Legal and Illegal Cannabis Markets
14 The Cannabis Enigma: Navigating Inequitable Tax, Banking, and Insurance Milieu in the United States
15 A Labor Studies Approach to Cannabis
16 Cannabis Corporate Social Responsibility: A Critical and Mixed-Method Approach
17 Consumer Activism, Sustainable Supply Chains, and the Cannabis Market
18 Zero Point Three: Current and Future Directions in the Political Economy of Medicinal Hemp

SECTION 4: ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

19 Industrializing Cannabis? Socio-Ecological Implications of Legalization and Regulation in California
20 The Environmental Impact of Cannabis Liberalization: Lessons from California
21 Energy Use by the Indoor Cannabis Industry: Inconvenient Truths for Producers, Consumers, and Policymakers
22 Two Rural Industries Intersecting over Time: Cannabis Production and Ecological Restoration in the Mattole Valley, California, USA
23 Cannabis Seed in the Rif Region of Morocco: The Commodification of Nature and the Construction of a Contested International Market

SECTION 5: CULTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE

24 Flipping the Script on Cannabis Stigma: Legitimacy Strategies of Medical Cannabis Patients
25 Pleasure and the New Normal of Recreational Cannabis in the United States
26 Images of Race and Gender in Cannabis Legalization Campaigns in the United States
27 Marijuana in the media during the regulation era in Uruguay, 2013-2017
Sebastián Aguiar, Mauricio Coitiño, Florencia Lemos, and Clara
28 The Intersection of Cannabis Reform and Other Progressive Movements: Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Researchers
29 Conflict and Consensus When Worlds Collide: The Intersection of Cannabis Citizen Science and Academia
30 Conclusion and Post-Prohibition Cannabis Research Futures

Index