- Author: Kara Manke
Cannabis is unlike any other agricultural crop. Because of its circuitous history — once illegal to grow, and now legal but heavily regulated — cannabis has cast a unique footprint on the environment and the communities of farmers who grow it.
UC Berkeley's new Cannabis Research Center, announced today by a...
- Author: Kat Kerlin
Reprinted from UC Davis News
As Timberland Converts to Cannabis, Spotted Owls and Barred Owls Test Positive for Rat Poison
- Author: Jim Downing
Soon after Van Butsic arrived in California in 2013 to join UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, he noticed a pattern. “Fire, water and weed are the three land-use issues that come up no matter who I talk to in this state,” he said. Fire and water were well-covered by UC and other researchers already. But cannabis looked to be an unexploited...
- Author: Julie Van Scoy
Reposted from the UCANR Green Blog
As policy liberalization rapidly transforms the multi-billion-dollar cannabis agriculture industry in the United States, the need for regulation and assessment of environmental impacts becomes increasingly apparent.
A...