Commodification and commercialisation in California's emerging licit cannabis sector

加州新兴大麻行业的商品化和商业化：“后期合法者”如何平衡蓬勃发展的市场和其他社会商品？该项目清楚地说明了CDD面临的巨大挑战：“社区如何通过其治理体系和发展过程驾驭不同的权力结构”。亚当提议研究加州的合法大麻部门：该州既是全球最大的大麻生产国，也是美国范围内的“后期合法者”。因此，它面临着促进商业利益和商品本能之间的紧张关系，与其他地方相比，它在更大程度上保护社会正义和公共卫生等其他商品，同时也能够向先驱者学习。对于那些在禁令下建立加州合法大麻产业的手工生产商来说，合法化威胁到他们的公民身份和发展。除了精英访谈，亚当还将与洪堡农民等积极耕种者合作，他们实时应对这些生计压力。因此，该项目契合了CDD的所有三个主题：公民社会，通过突出一个社会群体的经历，他们可能被表面上解放的法律变革进程边缘化；发展，通过将加州的牧区大麻政治经济置于关于全球禁令演变的更广泛辩论中；以及，通过审查这如何影响他们作为公民行为者的民主权利，它也将对民主有很多话要说。

Commodification and commercialisation in California's emerging licitcannabis sector: how can "late legalisers" balance a thriving market withother social goods?The project speaks clearly to CDD's grand challenge of understanding"how communities navigate different structures of power through theirsystems of governance and processes of development". Adam proposes toresearch California's licit cannabis sector: the state is simultaneously thelargest producer globally and a 'late legaliser' in the US context. It thereforefaces the tension between facilitating commercial interests and theircommodificatory instincts with protecting other goods such as social justiceand public health to a greater degree than elsewhere while also being ableto learn from pioneers. For the artisanal producers who built California'sillicit cannabis industry under prohibition, legalisation threatens toundermine their citizenship and development. Alongside elite interviews,Adam will work with activist cultivators such as Humboldt Farmers who arenavigating these livelihood pressures in real time. The project therefore fitswith all three CDD themes: civil society, by highlighting the experiences of asocial group who are potentially marginalised by an ostensibly liberatingprocess of legal change; development, by situating California's pastoralpolitical economy of cannabis within wider debates about the evolution ofglobal prohibition; and, by examining how this affects their democraticrights as civil actors, it will have much to say about democracy too.