Dossier Presentation – Cannabis Knowledge: Emerging Sociopolitical Practices of Research and Knowledge Production

Abstract

Cannabis has been the subject of countless techno-scientific pieces of research,
raising debates, actions and relationships in the areas of health, law, public
policies and class relations. This process occurred concomitantly with the
emergence of new ways of producing knowledge about the plant, with special
emphasis on the medicinal and therapeutic sphere. In this sense, the purpose of
this introductory text and the dossier that accompanies it is to bring together
research and reflections from different international, national and local contexts
that, inspired by the transdisciplinary field of social studies of science and
technology, focus on the production of knowledge in various social spheres in
which cannabis has been an object of central interest. In this way, the dossier
and this introductory article propose to reflect on the processes of shaping an
emerging scientific field of cannabis knowledge that has deep connections with
anti-prohibitionist activism and recent regulationist transformations.