Do medical marijuana centers behave like locally undesirable land uses? Implications for the geography of health and environmental justice

Urban Geography

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 315-336

  Boggess, Lyndsay N ^a   Pérez, Deanna M ^b   Cope, Kathryn ^c   Root, Carl ^a   Stretesky, Paul B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b New York City Crim Justice Agency   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental justice; inequality; medical marijuana; minority; poverty

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; LAND USE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINORITY GROUP; NEIGHBORHOOD; POVERTY; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; SOCIAL POLICY;

COLORADO; DENVER; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; UNITED STATES;

CANNABIS SATIVA;

EID: 84900488421     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2014.881018     Document Type: Article

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