Listing a female farm operator among all the farm operators may be at least correlated with a willingness to adopt new technology, diversify sales, or increase vertical integration on the dairy farm. This is a feasible hypothesis because the presence of a female operator may indicate that the farm is more open to change than […]
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Farm operator characteristics have changed as dairy farm size has evolved
Consolidation may have allowed dairies to capture improved productivity and efficiency on the farm. How dairy farm size changes in response to these and other factors are important in considering future trends in farm size and their impact on milk production in the United States. My research seeks to help explain recent patterns of farm […]
Several of the farmers characterized their role as a responsibility
Following the farm financial crisis of the 1980s, land prices in the County sharply dropped ; this economic window provided an opportunity for a new generation of farmers to insert a more ecologically-minded approach to farming. Many of these farmers arrived to Yolo County relatively new to farming – often young, educated white urbanites with a desire […]
Several lines of evidence suggest protective effects of cannabinoids on gut barrier function
The GBA encompasses bidirectional communication between the central and the enteric nervous systems , linking emotional and cognitive centers of the brain with intestinal functions . The autonomic nervous system, the ENS, and the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis mediate the communication of the GBA. Enteroendocrine signaling through enteroendocrine hormones activates neuronal pathways, including extrinsic afferent neurons, […]
Cannabis use has been increasingly prevalent among adolescents and young adults
Cultivation of marijuana and the associated use of toxicants have been recently documented in occupied fisher habitat. In addition to the four fisher mortalities attributed to anticoagulant rodenticides by Gabriel et al. , we documented nine additional pesticide toxicosis cases in the present study. The average incidence of toxicosis cases per year for the five […]
The California Department of Food and Agriculture oversees state-licensed cannabis cultivation and defined it as agriculture
Since AIDS patients are treated with anti-retroviral therapies, researchers explored the potential impact of cannabinoids on indinavir and nelfinavir and found no significant impact of marijuana on the efficacy of these drugs . The first written account of medicinal marijuana took place in China in the 5th century BC , and with ongoing research of […]
The majority of studies focus on cannabis users and individual stigma
By bringing actors from the black market to the taxed and licensed marketplace, the state can raise billions in annual tax revenue and create jobs for thousands of people. The economic justification of cannabis legalization was compelling: if people were going to use it anyway, why not tax it? Other important arguments favoring full legalization […]
Hippies were dangerous not due to their violence but due to their nonconformity
The 1969 Life article—known for its first use of the phrase “sex, drugs, and rock”—portrayed protesters as unconventional drug addicts whose life-style was “antithetical in almost every respect to that of conventional America.” The middle-class position of cannabis users affected cannabis laws by altering typical stereotypes about consumers and generating new arguments against the existing […]
The legalization of cannabis is a product of moral and political debates in contemporary America
A log-rank test was used to determine the significance of difference between two survival curves. All analyses were conducted using JMP staThistical softwar.Survivorship of adults reared from wild-caught larvae and pupae was examined in three different environments: indoor, plantation, and forest . Female mosquitoes placed indoors survived significantly longer than those in banana plantation and […]
Prevention of marijuana use for underage persons is an important public health goal
The AUMA initiative appropriately prohibits sales of marijuana to minors and prohibits anyone under the minimum age be allowed in any store that sells marijuana and marijuana products, including staff. This provision is stronger than regulations for retail alcohol stores, which explicitly allow underage people in convenience stores. However, AUMA fails to include other important provisions […]