How Will You Organize?

Use the space below to "map" the clusters your team thinks it might use to organize its
bibliography (include ideas for pictures/graphics). Traditional outlines or idea maps are both
fine.
Cannabis in America:
*Each tab will include a topic to reflect the different effects marijuana has on society*
● Brief History (home page)
● Medical (biological factors - neurotransmitters; pharmaceutical aspects, long term
repercussions, activation pathways, addiction pathways, ect) what is happening to your
body when you use cannabis
● Law - what it should/ might look like legislation, the umbrella effect of it today
● Crime - war on drugs, employment misfortunes after felony charge, nation vs. statewide
laws
● Social - how it affects communities, interrelationships, and social effects of cannabis use

Practice:
Each student should annotate ONE source in the space below. Follow the instructions on the
prompt for a complete annotation. You will not receive full credit for an incomplete annotation.

Student #1 (Name: Abriana Arrington):

The article aims to describe the impact of marijuana legalization and how it affects felons with
drug-related offenses. It further explains how the war on drugs has prompted an increase in the
development of a repressive justice system. Furthermore, it delves into the different outcomes of
retroactive ameliorative relief for felons convicted of marijuana possession under the new state
laws of legalization. Author Beverly Yuen Thompson, contributor of the Sociology department
at Siena College, details the racial disparities in relation to arrests and convictions using
statistics. The intended audience includes young adults, college students, and anybody who is
interested in law. This article relates to our ‘law’ section as it describes our criminal justice
system and the repercussions people of color face. (A.A)

Thompson, B. Y. (2017). “Good moral characters”: how drug felons are impacted under
state marijuana legalization laws. Contemporary Justice Review, 20(2), 211–226.

Student #2 (Name: Brooke Cusick):

This article aims to better understand the physiological pathways and activations associated with
frequent cannabis use. It is a longitudinal study involving 315 control cases, and 603 regular
cannabis users. I chose this source because of the recency and magnitude of the study. The study
uses fMRI to look at the physiological arousal levels of “cannabis-related cues” which are
thought to trigger urges to use cannabis. This study is directly related to my portion of the project
which is looking at cannabis use, and the physiological changes that result from consistent usage.
It is related to my field and interests because the study focuses on the psychophysiological
effects of cannabis use. People should care about this topic because little is understood medically
about the consequences of long-term, and frequent use effects of cannabis on the human brain.
This study offers insight into that topic via a scientific, and experimental method. This is a
particularly interesting article because it was published in September of 2021, so not only is the
research published, peer-reviewed and recent; it also offers easy-to-understand charts and good
comparable tests. The target audience of this article is probably other medical and psychology
students, and those who are particularly interested in psychopharmacology. There is a lot of
technical terminology and jargon that may put off people who are not as familiar with these
terms and concepts. (B.C)
Sehl, H., Terrett, G., Greenwood, L.-M., Kowalczyk, M., Thomson, H., Poudel, G.,
Manning, V., & Lorenzetti, V. (2021). Patterns of brain function associated with cannabis
cue-reactivity in regular cannabis users: A systematic review of fMRI studies.
Psychopharmacology, 238(10), 2709–2728.
Student #3 (Name: Jalen Pontillano):
The purpose of this article is to inform and educate families that are of low income about the
current status of marijuanna legalizations within their states. The authors found that the families
that were studied did not have an effect of whether marijuanna is legal or not and showed that the
parents were more adamant of retaining household rules than any other. The authors that
participated in writing this study have performed in multiple fields of social work and
developmental research, within their respective universities. The intended audience for this
article is for families that are low income and political viewers on marijunana legalization within
America. The audience that this article is trying to target are adolescents and parents to inform
them about the current status of marjuanna legalization and how the conversation within their
day-to-day family dynamics may or maynot shift. This work can also be seen within the Laws
and Legislation category because of how these two sections intertwine of having conversations
of having drugs legal. (J.P)
Mason, W. A., Hanson, K., Fleming, C. B., Ringle, J. L., & Haggerty, K. P. (2015).
Washington state recreational marijuana legalization: parent and adolescent perceptions,
knowledge, and discussions in a sample of low-income families. Substance Use &
Misuse, 50(5), 541–545.
Student #4 (Name: Miles Austin):
According to attorney David Butter in his FIU Law Review article, Section 280E is too
broad of a tax policy for the cannabis market. Section 280E unintentionally allows illicit markets
to profit while legal businesses are stunted. Butter believes the STATES Act proposed to
Congress is one potential solution to the problem created by section 280E. For more reading on
how legal states regulate their markets, Marijuana Taxes: Federal and State Tax Updates(2021)
also addresses the effects of Section 280E and how its taxation on a gross receipt basis has
affected businesses in legal states. The intended audience for this article is medical cannabis
users, cannabis business owners, people interested in cannabis, and people interested in how
legislation affects the market. David Butter is trying to create a conversation addressing how
laws and amendments do not reflect contemporary beliefs or knowledge and how those laws
impact the everyday taxpayer. (M.A.)

Butter, D. (2021). Modernizing U.S. tax code section 280E: how an outdated “war on drugs” tax
law is failing the united states legal cannabis industry and what congress can do to fix it. FIU
Law Review, 14(4), 739–774. https://doi-org.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/10.25148/lawrev.14.4.12