About Cannabis Studies 

Are you interested in learning more about the relationship of humans to cannabis in multiple cultural, institutional, and interpersonal contexts?

This major is grounded in Behavioral Sciences and addresses how intersecting identities, geography, and historicity frame the conversations and implications of cannabis and its use. This major incorporates anthropology, biological psychology, and sociology. It provides a unique examination of the constructions of cannabis as a product, a psychoactive substance, a behavior, and a form of deviance, revolution, criminality, spirituality, and ethnomedicine; depending upon cultural standpoint, time and global location. It also uses a social justice framework to analyze public policy, rhetoric, and health.

Cannabis Studies will be a gateway degree for students seeking transfer in related disciplines, specifically Anthropology, Psychology (and neuroscience), Sociology (and Social Work), Public Health, Criminal Justice, and Political Science/Theory.

Cannabis is on a trajectory to be a multi-billion dollar industry before 2030, with San Francisco among the fastest growing regions. An Associate Degree in Cannabis Studies can lead to good jobs in the industry. According to a 2019 Whitney Economics Cannabis Jobs report, the cannabis industry is the largest single job creator in the country. In 2019, the cannabis workforce grew by 44%, creating more than 64,000 jobs in all areas of the industry.

Program starts Spring 2021