Identifying, documenting, and preserving California’s rural legacy cannabis genetics, exploring the impacts of criminalization and policies on legacy genetics while providing policy recommendations for preserving the culture and genetic diversity of legacy cannabis.

Analyzing local cannabis regulations in California, including investigating potential unfair competition, estimating market power through industry interviews and data, and exploring state policies to address non-competitive effects of market concentration.

Assessing the impact of Proposition 64 on the South Bay region of Los Angeles, including economic and criminal justice factors.

Examining the economic impact of the cannabis industry in Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino, and Sonoma counties.

Identifying success factors for cannabis entrepreneurs in California, including tools for evaluating and promoting legal, safe, and equitable innovation.

Unlicensed Cultivation, Cultivation, Policy Evaluation, Environmental Impact, Local Control

Assessing the dynamics of unlicensed cannabis production, the size of the unlicensed market and identifying correlated policies, and evaluating the effectiveness of cultivation bans or permits in preventing environmental harm.

Examining unfair practices in California’s cannabis industry, looking at how investors impact small and equity businesses, studying investment patterns, and suggesting policies to prevent unfair behaviors.

Assessing cannabis water-use impacts to streamflow, water temperature, and habitat quality for aquatic species like salmon.

Understand the reasons and effects of local cannabis bans, including their impact on law enforcement, local economies, resources, environmental health, and resident well-being.

Assessing the impact of local cannabis regulations on property prices, tax revenue, and economic fairness across different types of communities in the state.

Assessing how wildfires impact California’s cannabis farms, associated risks, and ways to make cannabis farming more resilient to wildfires.

Understanding the impact of cannabis production legalization on Tribal communities and their sovereignty over ancestral lands.

Studying the impact of cannabis legalization on California’s unregulated cannabis market. in the Emerald Triangle, Sierra Foothills, and Inland Empire.

Assessing the environmental impact of noise and light disturbances from legal cannabis cultivation on fish, wildlife, and their habitats in California.

Assessing whether local government regulations on cannabis cultivation align with the objectives of Proposition 64.

Studying the chemistry, toxicology, and health impacts of cannabinoids produced by cannabis vaping devices.

Investigating the occupational health hazards faced by cannabis workers, particularly immigrants, including worker perceptions, beliefs, and knowledge of health and industry hazards.

Exploring the public health impact of legal cannabis use in California, including the impact of cannabis use in early psychosis.

Evaluating the environmental impacts of cannabis cultivation in California between licensed and unlicensed production, including the effects of testing regulations and compliance with criminal prohibition on unlicensed cannabis.

Examining various economic impacts of cannabis in California, including the competitiveness of licensed businesses, regional differences in retail prices, and the effects of local regulatory and demographic factors on the cannabis market.

Analyzing retail market prices for licensed and unlicensed cannabis in California, including the effects of current and alternative tax structures, on administrative costs, revenues, retail prices, and the overall viability of the legal cannabis market in California.

Analyzing the effects of high-potency cannabis, focusing on THC, in both humans and laboratory rodents, and addressing absorption, distribution, metabolism, mood, cognition, and potential long-term health effects.

Investigating how local cannabis policies impact adolescent cannabis use across California and assessing the effectiveness of current laws in preventing underage access to cannabis marketing.

Exploring the impact of high-potency cannabis on human and animal health

Assessing the impact of the Proposition 64 on racial, gender, and socioeconomic disparities related to cannabis policies, licensing, and consumption.

Assessing the impact of cannabis marketing on California’s youth.

Assessing cannabis use rates among sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth, and whether said youth are differently exposed to pro-cannabis marketing.

Accessing the feasibility and consequences of implementing a cannabis potency tax in California.

Studying the affect of legalization on cannabis use rates, maladaptive use rates for adults and youth, and the rate of diagnosis of cannabis-related substance abuse disorders.

Assessing employment conditions and equity in California’s cannabis industry, including worker safety, career trajectory, and economic outcomes.

Measuring cannabis potency and its impoacts on cognitive, brain, and psychiatric functioning in young adult cannabis users.

Investigating the lifelong impact of adolescent cannabis use on mental and physical health, including the adolescent brain and cognitive development.

Investigating the impact of packaging and labeling on cannabis edible use among youth in California.

Assessing the role of CBD in improvement of alexithymia and health outcomes.

Investigating the risks and benefits of cannabis use in older adults.

Assessing the public health impact of cannabis legalization in California, including usage patterns, reasons for use, behavioral changes, dependency, and information sources.

Exploring the long-term effects of early-life exposure to cannabinoids, including THC, CBD, and CBG, on various health outcomes like brain development, behavior, physiology, cognition, and immune function.

Investigating the impact of cannabis use on lung function and health by measuring cannabis metabolites in urine.

Investigating the public health impacts of mandatory warning signs for cannabis use during pregnancy.

Assessing the impact of cannabis use and secondhand exposure on cardiovascular health.

Investigating the impact of acute cannabis poisonings and overdoses in California, both before and after the implementation of Proposition 64.

Assessing the environmental impact of cannabis farms in Santa Barbara County, including pesticide residues and downstream water quality.

Assessing synthetic and semi-synthetic cannabinoids, including potency, psychoactive effects, and therapeutic potential.

Examining how medicinal cannabis is used among clinical populations by analyzing data from health systems in Los Angeles County, focusing on prevalence, patterns, dosing, types of products, modes of use, perceived impacts on symptoms, and self-reported adverse effects.

Assessing changes in the CA cannabis market from 2019 through June 2024, including projecting the viability of general and equity cannabis businesses, the impact of the suspension of the cultivation tax, and how to define and mesure success in the CA cannabis market.

Assessing the state of medicinal cannabis in California, including medicinal cannabis patient diagnoses, cannabis preferences, and sources.

Evaluating the interactions between THC and CBD ratios, specifically assessing their impact on adverse effects and therapeutic outcomes to inform cannabis regulation and safety measures.

Evaluating the immediate, short-term health effects of high concentrations of delta-9 THC in smoked cannabis and inhaled cannabis concentrates (‘dabs’).

Investigating the effects of cannabis concentrate THC potency and metabolism on cognitive impairment in young adults, including examining correlations between THC potency, urine THC levels, and cognitive performance.