Grants and Contracts

• Humboldt County Cannabis Equity Assessment. Prepared in collaboration with the California Center for Rural Health Policy, 2019.
• Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessment for proposed regulations on medical cannabis manufacturers. Contract with the California Department of Public Health, 2016-17.
• Longitudinal Study of Humboldt County Youth Health Behaviors: Pilot Phase. Funding from a Cal Poly Humboldt Faculty Emeritus, 2017.
• Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessment for proposed regulations on adult use cannabis manufacturers. Contract with the California Department of Public Health, 2017.

Publications

• Meisel, Joshua, Tara Marie Watson, and Jared Wesley. 2019. "Eliminate Restrictions Preventing Cannabis Research." Policy Options. November  22.
• Silvaggio, Tony. Where there's smoke: The environmental science, public policy, and politics of marijuana, forthcoming 2018.
• Meisel, Joshua. (2017).  Hidden in Plain Sight: Cannabis Cultivation in the Emerald Triangle. California Geographer.
• Zender, Joshua. (2016).  Impact of Marijuana Decriminalization on the Washington State Budget: Year One. National Social Science Journal. 45(2). San Diego, CA.
• Eschker, Erick with with Charles Kaplan, (2016) "A General Economy of Marijuana: Implications for Legalization," Quarterly Journal of the American Institute for Progressive Democracy, October, pp. 33-47.
• Gabriel MW, Woods LW, Wengert GM, Stephenson N, Higley JM, Thompson C, et al. (2015). "Patterns of Natural and Human-Caused Mortality Factors of a Rare Forest Carnivore, the Fisher (Pekania pennanti) in California" PLOS ONE
• Carah et al. (with Mourad Gabriel)(2015). "High Time for Conservation: Adding the Environment to the Debate on Marijuana Liberalization" BioScience
• Swartz, Ronnie. (2010). Medical marijuana users in substance abuse treatment. Harm Reduction Journal, 7(3)
• Gold Gregg J. and AT Nguyen (2009) Comparing entering freshmen's perceptions of campus marijuana and alcohol use to reported use. Journal of Drug Education. 39(2):133-48.
• Cal Poly Humboldt Library Special Collection on Marijuana Research (the library has DVDs available)

Video

• Video titled Ecological Impacts of Industrial Marijuana Operations of grow sites by Prof. Anthony Silvaggio and his students.
• Documentary titled Dispensing Cannabis: The California Story : Voices from Inside by Prof. Ann Alter and B. Shaw and S. Spain.
• For streaming videos from our Speaker Series and symposia, visit our News and Events page and Humboldt Digital Scholar.

Graduate Theses

• Adelman, Alisha. (2013) Gender dynamics and social relations of production in Humboldt’s marijuana industry.
• Arnold, Jessica. (2013) Energy consumptiona and environmental impacts associated with cannabis cultivation.
• August, Karen D. (2012) Playing the game: marijuana growing in a rural community.
• Bryant, Samantha M. (2011) Public policy assessment of local government approaches to implementing California's medical marijuana laws.
• Haskell, John Edward (2008) A Bird's Eye View: Medical Marijuana - The Patient's Perspective.
• Huddon-Cossar, Ian (2014) Media ownership and cannabis in Humboldt County news media.
• Owen, Anna C. (2012) Industrial and nutritional hemp In Manitoba: A case study exploring stakeholder strategies and legitimacy.
• Scaminaci, Joseph (2014) Analysis of the Phytoremediation Capabilities of Hemp (Cannabis spp).
• Trujillo, Colin William (2011) Marijuana, Mexico and the media.

Community Resources

• Directory of tax and legal compliance resources entitled Humboldt County Marijuana Business Source from Prof. Zender.
• Here is a link to an external site. Best Management Practices: Northern California Farmer Guide.

Projects and Research in Progress

• Butler, Edie. "Bibliography for Marijuana in North West California" 2018
• Butler, Edie. "Timeline of Marijuana Events in North West California" 2015
• Eschker, Erick, Joshua Meisel and Jeff Grabinski. "College Students Working in the Marijuana Industry" 2014
• Eschker, Erick. "Medical Marijuana Dispensary Survival and Delivery, California 2015-16" 
• Eschker, Erick. "Active Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in California" 2015
• Gold, Gregg J. and S.L. Lee. "How Pre-College Perceptions of Alcohol and Marijuana Use Affect Actual College Use".
• Krissman, Fred. "America's Largest Cannabis Labor Market" 2016
• Silvaggio, Anthony. "The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Marijuana Industrial Complex."
• Silvaggio, Anthony. "Killer buds: Illegal pesticide use and environmental crimes of the marijuana industry in northern California."
• Silvaggio, Anthony. "Environmental Challenges of Marijuana Agriculture in the Age of Prohibition."