Craft Weed, with a New Preface by the Author: Family Farming and the Future of the Marijuana Industry

Stoa, Ryan

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-02
  • 售價: $1,110
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,055
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 256
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262548666
  • ISBN-13: 9780262548663
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商品描述

How the future of post-legalization marijuana farming can be sustainable, local, and artisanal.

What will the marijuana industry look like as legalization spreads? Will corporations sweep in and create Big Marijuana, flooding the market with mass-produced weed? Or will marijuana agriculture stay true to its roots in family farming, and reflect a sustainable, local, and artisanal ethic? In Craft Weed, Ryan Stoa argues that the future of the marijuana industry should be powered by small farms--that its model should be more craft beer than Anheuser-Busch.

To make his case for craft weed, Stoa interviews veteran and novice marijuana growers, politicians, activists, and investors. He provides a history of marijuana farming and its post-hippie resurgence in the United States. He reports on the amazing adaptability of the cannabis plant and its genetic gifts, the legalization movement, regulatory efforts, the tradeoffs of indoor versus outdoor farms, and the environmental impacts of marijuana agriculture. To protect and promote small farmers and their communities, Stoa proposes a Marijuana Appellation system, modeled after the wine industry, which would provide a certified designation of origin to local crops. A sustainable, local, and artisanal farming model is not an inevitable future for the marijuana industry, but Craft Weed makes clear that marijuana legalization has the potential to revitalize rural communities and the American family farm.

As the era of marijuana prohibition comes to an end, now is the time to think about what kind of marijuana industry and marijuana agriculture we want. Craft Weed will help us plan for a future that is almost here.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

「後合法化大麻種植的未來如何實現可持續、本地化和工藝化?」
大麻合法化的擴散將如何影響大麻產業?大公司會進入並創造大麻巨頭,使市場充斥著大量大規模生產的大麻嗎?還是大麻農業會堅守家族農場的傳統,體現可持續、本地化和工藝化的倫理觀?在《工藝大麻》一書中,Ryan Stoa主張大麻產業的未來應由小農場主導,其模式應更像是工藝啤酒而非安海斯-布希。
為了支持工藝大麻的觀點,Stoa訪問了老手和新手大麻種植者、政治家、活動家和投資者。他介紹了大麻種植的歷史以及它在美國後嬉皮士時代的復興。他報導了大麻植物的驚人適應能力和遺傳特性、合法化運動、監管努力、室內種植與室外種植之間的取捨,以及大麻農業的環境影響。為了保護和促進小農和他們的社區,Stoa提出了一個以葡萄酒行業為模型的大麻產地認證系統,該系統將為當地作物提供認證的產地標誌。可持續、本地化和工藝化的農業模式並非大麻產業的必然未來,但《工藝大麻》明確指出,大麻合法化有潛力振興鄉村社區和美國家庭農場。
隨著大麻禁令時代的結束,現在是思考我們想要怎樣的大麻產業和大麻農業的時候了。《工藝大麻》將幫助我們為即將到來的未來做好規劃。

作者簡介

Ryan Stoa is Associate Professor of Law at Concordia University School of Law in Boise, Idaho.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Ryan Stoa是愛達荷州博伊西康科迪亞大學法學院的副教授。