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Chicanx Cannabis Relationships: Cultural and Political Histories of Cannabis Resistance

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  • Magaly Ordonez
Magaly Ordonez
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3197/WHPPP.63845494909749

Published 2025-01-15

Keywords

  • Cannabis relationships,
  • Chicanx feminisms,
  • critical cannabis studies,
  • cannabis ethnobotany

How to Cite

Magaly Ordonez. 2025. “Chicanx Cannabis Relationships: Cultural and Political Histories of Cannabis Resistance”. Plant Perspectives, January. https://doi.org/10.3197/WHPPP.63845494909749.

Copyright (c) 2024 Magaly Ordonez

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Abstract

This article focuses on interdisciplinary feminist cannabis research that prioritises the cannabis relationships and spaces in Chicanx/Latinx communities. The interdisciplinary approach I take builds from the fields of ethnic studies, Chicanx feminisms, environmental humanities and critical cannabis studies. I offer a history of cannabis ethnobotany to understand the cultural and medicinal approaches to cannabis from a queer trans Chicanx feminist positionality. Signaling to a Chicanx cannabis history that exposes racial cannabis politics dating back to the early twentieth century in the US, I build from this history to share cannabis futures grounded in Chicanx environmental perspectives. There is a need for cannabis research because human-plant relationships are currently tethered to extraction and profit, as is visible in current cannabis industries.

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