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WSLCB Home Grow Study Options Under Review
by Dr. Dominic Corva, Executive Director Yesterday, the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (“LCB”) announced the parameters of its legislatively-mandated study on the feasibility of home grow...
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LCB Home Grow Study: Option 3 the Status Quo
by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director After further review, it’s very clear how to respond to the WSLCB regulated home grow options. I choose, if it matters, Option 3, the status quo....
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Alison Holcomb RE: I-502’s Intent and Home Grow from 9/5/17
[Editor’s note: Washington NORML asked I-502 architect Alison Holcomb to weigh in on the intent of I-502, and its relationship with the prospect of adult home grow in this State. These comments were...
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Don’t let Fear of the Feds Block Civil Liberty Home Grow
by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director My previous two posts addressed the barriers to change embodied in the Washington State Liquor Control Board’s regulated home grow feasibility study;...
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The Cannabis Alliance Letter on Home Grow
by Dominic Corva, Social Science Research Director I reprint here, with permission, the letter drafted by the only Washington State I 502 trade group whose membership is dedicated to ending the drug...
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Three Questions for the Reform Conference
by Dominic Corva, Executive Director This year, the International Drug Policy Reform Conference (Reform) will be taking place next week in Atlanta, Georgia. This post lets our readers know about...
View ArticleFormer Deputy Director of WSLCB : Home Grow is a Small Step
watch by Dominic Corva, Executive Director Yesterday, the WSLCB invited public comment hearing in Olympia to receive testimony on whether the state should allow regulated (not civil liberty) home grow...
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5 years post legalization: Over-Regulation Threatens the Viability of Small...
by Crystal Oliver, President, Co-Founder, Washington’s Finest Cannabis; Executive Board Member, Cannabis Farmers Council; Executive Assistant, Washington State Affiliate for NORML (National...
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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...
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Cannabis 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...
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Popular 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,...
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CASP 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...
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The 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...
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CASP 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...
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The 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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