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The Forensic Identification of Marijuana: Suspicion, Moral Danger, and the Creation of Non-Psychoactive THC
Albany law journal of science & technology., Vol.22, pp.103-131
2012
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/5375
Abstract
American federal and state laws present marijuana as a dangerous substance requiring coercive control and forbid private citizens from possessing, selling, or growing it. The differences between marijuana and hemp--a similar but uncontrolled substance in the United States--remain largely social and legal, rather than chemical. These complications present conceptual and practical difficulties for the law, which is structured around neat, mutually exclusive categories. More practically, current forensic tests are incapable of discerning hemp from marijuana because of this legal confusion. This paper investigates the conflicting social, scientific, and legal understandings of marijuana and the potential practical implications of its legal status.
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- Title
- The Forensic Identification of Marijuana: Suspicion, Moral Danger, and the Creation of Non-Psychoactive THC
- Creators
- Aaron Roussell (Author)
- Publication Details
- Albany law journal of science & technology., Vol.22, pp.103-131
- Academic Unit
- Criminal Justice and Criminology, Department of
- Identifiers
- 99900502203301842
- Copyright
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Accepted manuscript