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The Endgame is Local
California Board of Equalization (BOE) crew, featuring Fiona Ma, at the end of the Light Dep tunnel on a Spring 2015 BOE tour. by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director The mission of our...
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What and whither post-prohibition cannabis politics after 2016?
The outgoing president as a young man. Photo credit unknown. by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director The national landscape for post-prohibition cannabis laws changed substantially in...
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Post-prohibition politics 2017
Policy Ecology Relationships Visualized by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director I’ve been using a “policy ecology” metaphor to describe the complex development of national (and global,...
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Whole Plant Politics 2017 and Beyond
Dr. Ethan Russo, who is a true inspiration for Whole Plant Politics, keynoting CASP’s Original Terpestival (TM) in Hopland, Califonria, July 23 2016. Photo by Hillary Bernhardt. by Dominic Corva,...
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CASP Announces New Board Members
by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director The Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social Policy is pleased to announce the addition of three new Board members, our first major update in...
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Whole Plant Outlooks 2017
CASP founders and co-Executive Directors at the first annual Terpestival, Seattle, Washington. by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director Happy 2017 to our readers! It’s amazing how fast...
View ArticleDr. Ethan Russo: Cannabis Popular Education at the High Dive
by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director Last night I had the pleasure of watching Dr. Ethan Russo deliver a “Cannabis 101” talk at the High Dive in Fremont. The talk was part of a regular...
View ArticleOregon’s Cannabis Regulatory Landscape
by John Sajo, Oregon cannabis agriculturalist and decades-long organizer I hope the democratic leaders of the Oregon Joint Committee on Marijuana Regulation wake up and take a new approach. They have...
View ArticleSpicer’s Press Statements on Legal Cannabis: Don’t Panic
by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research DirectorDOJCole memo Medical cannabis financial reform New States TCOs Likely enforcement by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director...
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The Third Annual Terpestival
by Dr. Dominic Corva, Terpestival Producer and Social Science Research Director The Cannabis and Social Policy Center is proud to announce the third return of our annual popular education event, the...
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Enter the Terpene Tournament
by Dr. Dominic Corva, Terpestival Producer and Social Science Research Director Example Certificate of Analysis from Medicine Creek Analytics, including full range of terpenes that will be analyzed by...
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Taming THC Inflation: Is There a Silver Bullet?
by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director Washington State’s approach to cannabis legalization provides many lessons for other states coming on line in the future. One of the really...
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An Alliance of Cannabis for Wellness
by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director The cannabis peace movement faces many challenges, but perhaps the most significant one is the limited appeal of cannabis politics to the vast...
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Introducing the Terpestival Popular Education Panels
by Dominic Corva, Event Producer and Social Science Research Director This year’s posts about The Original Terpestival (TM) follow the rhythm of the event’s production. First, we told you about the...
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Terpestival Winners with Confident Cannabis and Medicine Creek Analytics
by Tony Lewis, President and Co-founder, Confident Cannabis Confident Cannabis are excited to partner with the Cannabis and Social Policy Center, Cannabis Alliance and Medicine Creek testing lab to...
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The Chemovar and the Cultivar
by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director and Terpestival Producer Our popular education panels and keynote talk by Dr. Ethan Russo at the Third Annual Original Terpestival represented an...
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Saying Goodbye to Dr. Michelle Sexton
Dr. Sexton and Dr. Corva at 2013 Seattle Hempfest , Seattle Washington by Dominic Corva, Executive Director I first met Dr. Michelle Sexton when my friend from graduate school, Dr. Sunil Aggarwal,...
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Field Guide to Cannabis Markets and Policy: A Starting Point
by Dr. Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director How are cannabis markets and policy experiments changing society? The first thing to understand is that cannabis markets, like all markets, exist...
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Barriers to Understanding, Barriers to Change
by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director Yesterday I introduced a trailhead to exploring how cannabis markets and policy help shape each other. My academic friends should recognize this as a...
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Barriers to Understanding, Barriers to Change (Spanish translation)
Many thanks to our Colombian reader, Ramiro Borja, for providing this translation to us! The original article in English can be found here. Translated by Ramiro E. Borja / Colectivo Nueva de Abril...
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