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US (UT): University of Utah to offer "Feminist Cannabis Studies" course

The University of Utah is currently offering a course entitled "Feminist Cannabis Studies" through its Gender Studies program. The "upper division course explores feminist cannabis studies as a field and subject of study" that asks people to evaluate their "understandings and assumptions around cannabis," according to the course description.

The course investigates "the history of the cannabis prohibition, legalization movement, and its political, social, cultural and practical intricacies."

"Through interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist frameworks, we examine historical and contemporary discourse on cannabis across the U.S. and beyond," the description says.

"Feminist Cannabis Studies" also covers "Queer/Trans* Activism and Racialized Histories." It poses the question: "What does history tell us about the ways gender, race, sexuality, immigration, and class have shaped our understanding of cannabis?" as stated in the description.

Read more at Washington Examiner

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