ABRACE: Sowing the Seed of Brazil’s Medical Cannabis
Cassiano Teixeira, founder of ABRACE. Photo courtesy of ABRACE by Stephen Charles Flohr 5/29/18 – Paraiba, Brazil In an unprecedented decision, the Brazilian Federal Court has granted a nonprofit...
View ArticleCannabis and Cultural Economy
by Dominic Corva, Executive Director Simple concepts are pretty good for marketing, branding, and advertising, but they aren’t much help for engaging with complex problems. In today’s post, I want to...
View ArticlePopular Anxieties
Popular Anxieties: Controlling Cannabis and Other Markets at the End of the World by Dominic Corva, Political Geographer This post is a preview of the talk I will give in Portland on September 27,...
View ArticleCASP feedback to Swiss Advisory Commission on Addiction Issues
by Dominic Corva, Executive Director Last May, I received an unexpected request for feedback from The Federal Commission for Addiction Issues in Switzerland. Well, sort of unexpected, more like...
View ArticleThe Globalization of Postprohibition, CASP role
Dr. Tony Silvaggio, CASP Senior Research Associate by Dominic Corva, Executive Director This morning I woke up to an email from Dr. Tony Silvaggio, our Senior Research Associate who is an Assistant...
View ArticleCASP Partners with FAAAT and the 2018 International Cannabis Policy...
by Dominic Corva, Executive Director The Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social Policy (CASP) is proud to announce that we are partnering with the 2018 International Cannabis Policy Conference...
View ArticleAcademic Agendas
by Dominic Corva, Executive Director Warning: really nerdy post. I’m a political geographer by training and experience, living outside the usual institutions that house such people. I chose to start...
View ArticleWhy Postprohibition?
by Dominic Corva, Executive Director I’m deeply unsatisfied with the ways we talk about cannabis legalization right now. Policymakers talk about it as a technical problem, opponents talk about it as a...
View ArticleThe Routledge Handbook of Post-Prohibition Cannabis Research and CASP...
About three years ago, I was asked by Dr. Josh Meisel (Sociology, Humboldt State University) and Routledge Senior Editor Dean Birkenkamp to co-edit a Routledge Handbook of cannabis research. Next...
View Article“Re-imagining Cooperative Cannabis” Phase II Research Results
The Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social Policy (CASP) is excited to present the second phase of our first collaboration with a mission-specific independent research project, “Re-imagining...
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