Chicanx Cannabis Relationships

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.