Tony SilvaggioTony Silvaggio is an associate professor of Sociology at Humboldt State University and founding faculty member of the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research. His research focuses on understanding the environmental consequences ofcannabis prohibition and the limits of state-level legalization efforts, identifying the ways in which legalization efforts continue to facilitate environmental degradation. One of the first scholars in the United States to sound the alarm about the ecological impacts of industrial cannabis agriculture, he organized the Earth Day Symposium on Marijuana and the Environment (2013), which brought together cannabis cultivators, policymakers, land managers, tribal leaders, law enforcement, and environmentalists to examine the environmental impacts of industrial cannabis agriculture. His most recent work can be found in, Where There's Smoke: The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana (2018). His research has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Al Jazeera, and The Nation. Read More Read Less