Research & Projects

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.

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 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.

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.

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."

Contact

Dr. Dominic Corva
Co-Director
(206) 228-0509
dominic.corva@humboldt.edu

Dr. Whitney Ogle
Co-Director & Assistant Professor of Kinesiology
(707) 826-5929
Whitney.Ogle@humboldt.edu