Document Type
Thesis
Date of Degree Completion
Summer 2021
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Cultural and Environmental Resource Management
Committee Chair
J. Hope Amason
Second Committee Member
Toni Sipic
Third Committee Member
William Provasnik
Abstract
This thesis provides an ethnographically grounded analysis of how existing regulations shape the legal recreational cannabis industry in Washington State. I examine the processes involved from seed to sale, including cultivation, processing, quality-control testing, and distribution of recreational cannabis. The goal of this research is to provide a greater understanding of how existing regulations were formed and how they shape social relations within the industry. This study seeks to answer the question: “How are the processes of production within the recreational cannabis industry, along with its labor force and its consumers, impacted by societal perceptions about cannabis, encapsulated within state regulations?”
Recommended Citation
Loewen, Rob, "Transitioning to Legalization of Cannabis in Washington State: Regulations’ Impacts on Commodification, Metabolism, & Labor Practices" (2021). All Master's Theses. 1572.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/1572
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