Undergraduate Honors Thesis

 

Gentrifying Marijuana: The Construction of Whiteness through Legal Marijuana Public Deposited

https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/b2773w27g
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  • Marijuana legalization has provided vast opportunities for economic advancement and job growth within a number of US states. However, despite these gains, many argue that the legal marijuana industry has left behind those most impacted by prohibition. This project seeks to explore relationship between the legal marijuana industry, gentrification and whiteness. Data for this project was collected through an examination of 60 marijuana related advertisements sourced within magazines around the Denver and Boulder metro areas, as well as interviews with 20 primarily White identifying marijuana consumers. Using Schulman’s (2012) definition of gentrification, this work seeks to further scholarly understandings of gentrification as a process that occurs not only within the physical make-up of space, but also within the ideological space of the mind.
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  • 2019-01-01
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  • 2019-12-02
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