Licensed and Unlicensed Cultivation Across Ban and Permit Jurisdictions: Predictors of Growth and Total Production Estimates

University of California, Berkeley

Year: 2022

Status: Completed

Amount: $1,042,321

Researchers: Van Butsic (Primary Investigator), Michael Polson (co-PI), Amanda Reiman (co-PI), Christopher Dillis, Margiana Petersen-Rockney

Topics: cultivation, unlicensed cultivation

This project demonstrated the potential to accurately assess the amount and geography of unlicensed cannabis production in California.

Indoor Cannabis Cultivation

Licensed Cultivation and Supply Chain Dynamics

Mapping & Assessing Unlicensed Cannabis Cultivation

Patterns and Drivers of Unlicensed Cannabis Cultivation Since Legalization

Remote Sensing Cannabis Cultivation in Four Northern California Centers of Production with Faster-RCNN Object Detection