California cannabis research to address environmental impacts

The research proposals had to fall within one of several specified categories, including public health, criminal justice, public safety, economics, environmental impacts, and the cannabis industry.

UC-ANR-related cannabis projects and their principal investigators include the following, and others:

• Cannabis industry: Assessment of the location, structure, function, and demographics of licensed cannabis, focusing on geographical price differences and differential impacts of local Prop 64-related regulations on the competitiveness of licensed businesses
• Economic impacts: Market prices for licensed and unlicensed cannabis and the effects of the current and alternate cannabis tax structures and tax rates on the private and public sectors in California, including government administrative costs and revenues
• Environmental impacts of cannabis cultivation in California as affected by the farm economics of licensed and unlicensed cannabis production, including effects of testing regulations and compliance with the criminal prohibition of unlicensed cannabis
• Assessing environmental impacts of cannabis-related noise and light disturbance to inform management of California wildlife.

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