Publications from the Cannabis Studies Lab Blog.
Speaker Bios and more information on the March 28th, 2025 Cannabis and Environmental Stewardship Symposium can be found on the 2025 Cannabis and Environmental Stewardship Symposium event page. Location Native Forum at Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata CA. Date: March 28th, 2025 Time: 9 AM to 430 PM Event Information Symposium Speakers Read more…
Cal Poly Humboldt’s Cannabis Studies Program is pleased to invite campus and community members to attend the second annual Symposium on Cannabis and Environmental Stewardship to explore existing and potential policy options for incentivizing regenerative cannabis agriculture and best practices for licensed cannabis production beyond the structure of existing rules and regulations. This event Read more…
William Dolphin and Michelle Newhart teach in Cal Poly Humboldt’s Cannabis Studies Program. They are the award-winning co-authors of “The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy Stigma and the Patient Experience” and many other publications about medical cannabis. Cal Poly Humboldt’s Cannabis Studies Program invites campus and community members to attend a Read more…
Cal Poly Humboldt’s Cannabis Studies Program invites campus and community members to attend a special symposium on Cannabis and Environmental Stewardship to explore existing and potential policy options for incentivizing regenerative cannabis agriculture and best practices for licensed cannabis production beyond the structure of existing rules and regulations. We bring Read more…
All data displayed below were pulled from the California Department of Cannabis Control Cannabis Unified License Search tool, accessed on January 29, 2024. Our second post (California License Types: License Counts, and Maximum Canopy) introduced readers to California’s aggregate data on license types and maximum canopy size. A third way Read more…
All data displayed below were pulled from the California Department of Cannabis Control Cannabis Unified License Search tool, accessed on January 29, 2024. Overview At a very basic level, the DCC database tells us how many cultivation licenses are in the state, and how many total cultivation licenses there are. Read more…
The California License Geography project at the Cannabis Studies Lab analyzes publicly available data from the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) Unified License Search webpage to visualize and analyze the uneven implementation of legal cannabis within California. This post reflects data pulled from the database on January 29, 2024. Purpose Read more…
Cal Poly Humboldt Cannabis Studies Program is delighted to announce that Khalil Ferguson will join us on March 22nd 2024 to present a lecture on Social Equity in the current cannabis landscape titled Achieving Social Equity in California: Obstacles in Business and Legislation. The lecture will be held at the Read more…