Category Archives: Commercial Cannabis Cultivation

In an attempt to achieve net zero emissions, tech companies have strongly considered fuel cell technology as a greener and more efficient alternative to energy conversion than the traditional combustion methods of power plants. Over the past several years, the … Continue reading →

Uncertainty in when, how and where water is being used, however, threatens the security of water rights — particularly when water is substantially over allocated relative to natural supplies. During the 2012–2016 drought, for example, the SWRCB issued notices of curtailment … Continue reading →

Several social behavioral theories have placed perceived risks as a precursor to risky behavior,with lower risk perceptions leading to increased substance use.For example, young people who perceive long-term tobacco use as low risk are nearly four times more likely to … Continue reading →

Greater exposure reduced the odds of current cigarette use and smokeless use by 30% and 45%, respectively. Anti-smoking media campaigns help to shape social norms and institutional policies around smoking, which in turn change smoking behavior at the population level,including … Continue reading →

Given the exploratory and cross-sectional nature of this study, we could not examine a causal relationship between perceived risks/benefits and cannabis use behavior. Longitudinal studies have found a bidirectional relationship between perceptions and tobacco use, in which perceived risks and … Continue reading →

In addition to choosing attributes based on significance, we considered the importance of attributes for policy implications. For this reason, we kept the densities of bike lanes and bike racks even though they were not statistically significant in the final … Continue reading →

The evidence for this is mixed, however . Whereas medical users report that alleviation of acute symptoms of these disorders was a primary motivation for permit applications , a systematic review by Walsh et al. reported that this was not consistently … Continue reading →

Residues were common in the legal cannabis supply — a 2017 investigation found that 93% of 44 samples collected from 15 cannabis retailers in California contained pesticide residues . Some studies of data from the unregulated period suggest a relationship … Continue reading →

Through adenosine antagonism, caffeine enhances neural activity by blocking the inhibitory affects of adenosine activation . In addition, by inhibiting adenosine binding to receptors on smooth muscles cells, caffeine reduces the ability of blood vessels to dilate and causes an … Continue reading →

The estimates from Table 3.7 are not statistically different from those of Table 3.2, but they are more precisely estimated in the restricted sample. The magnitude of the effects is largest for weekend and nighttime accidents, again suggesting that increased … Continue reading →