Although a broad and detailed history of illegal cannabis trafficking networks exist, it remains a relatively understudied group in the current legal context. Prior research has been limited in three crucial aspects: it has been geographically limited to single states or jurisdi…
This is a history of artists and the ways they were policed in Michigan from the 1950s to the 1970s, as told primarily through the experiences of John Sinclair, a poet, writer, journalist, artist, organizer, and activist who served prison time for violations of the state narcoti…
The opioid epidemic constitutes one of the worst drug crises in the history of U.S. State-level policies, in general, have done little to prevent prescription opioid abuse. A noteworthy exception to other clinical efforts to curb opioid abuse is marijuana. Despite preliminary ev…
This dissertation focuses on historic changes in public perception of narcotic use and abuse from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. From the 1840s to the outbreak of Civil War, politicians, physicians, the general public, and state and federal government remained …
Many U.S. states have legalized medical and recreational marijuana and have decriminalized its use, and recent trends show that many more people are in favor of legalization. Therefore, there is an increase in the opportunity to invest in the marijuana industry despite marijuana…
The purpose of the study was to determine differences in behaviorally disordered marijuana and non-marijuana abusing adolescents referred to family therapy. One hundred and eighty-eight male and female adolescents, as well as caretakers, were compared examining archival data obt…