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Where Are the Biologists?
Though more than a dozen researchers are working with the institute, they’re mostly sociologists, economists, anthropologists and geographers. Meisel and Eschker lament the lack of participation from one important field: natural sciences. That’s particularly frustrating with the increased awareness of and questions about the environmental impacts The University, no one told of pot. Farmers drying up institute’s him about the North streams, leveling forests speaker series Coast’s underground and poisoning wildlife has three scheduled pot economy. “It did is nothing new, Meisel events for spring 2014, surprise me a bit,” says — in fact CAMP (the including talks by Dr. he says. multi-agency law enforceSheigla Murphy, who studies As he became ment Campaign Against drug policy and effects of aware of the Marijuana Planting) the war on drugs for the scale and imbroadcast those effects Institute for Scientific Analysis; portance of the in the early 1980s to San Francisco State University cash crop on the gain support for its war professor Martin D. Carcieri, whose local economy, on marijuana — but most recent article in the Akron community and there’s a resurgence Law Review was titled “Obama, environment, it in reports of those the Fourteenth Amendment, and became clear to him damages, and some the Drug War”; and Sunil Kumar that more scienhave suggested Aggarwal, a New York doctor who tific research was that an increasing studies the pain relieving effects needed. When number of mariof medical marijuana. Eschker and juana farms are Meisel proposed For more information about the spreading the the institute in 2012, institute, and to watch archived damage more Richmond was bevideos of past guest speakers, visit widely. hind it immediately. www.humboldt.edu/hiimr. That assertion, “I was delighted,” he though, is just says. “As a scientist, I’m another part of the all for getting more pot puzzle that needs research on it.” more study. Reports that the Talking across a large number of marijuana farms wooden desk in his bright campus or the number of acres in marijuana office, Richmond says he still has some production have increased in the last doubts about legalizing marijuana, and few decades are largely anecdotal, marijuana abuse by college students Meisel says. Satellite images of clearcut and youth concerns him — though he land and dwindling water flows imply a doubts it’s any worse than alcohol if it’s growing grower industry — but satelused responsibly. continued on next page The institute gets him some teasing in
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