Blunts and Blondes: Unrolling Gendered and Racial Inequalities in the Budding Legal Cannabis Industry

An Exploratory Qualitative Examination of Gender and Race in the Budding Cannabis Industry. The development of a legal cannabis industry—in the United States, Canada, and other places around the globe—is a hot topic of discussion as it rearranges the narrative of prohibition that has been mainstream for over 100 years. The goal of this research paper was to conduct an exploratory and qualitative examination of the history of cannabis culture and prohibition, and the gendered and racial ineq...