Jose Garcia-Fuerte is a judicial law clerk for the Oregon Court of Appeals.* He provides legal research and writing support to judges across the court. He joined the Oregon State Bar after graduating from Lewis & Clark Law School. In law school, Jose’s academic interests explored the intersections of constitutional law, environmental law, cannabis law, and social equity. He obtained his B.A. in Law, Politics, and Society from Drake University where he was a research assistant for Professor William Garriott studying legal and political developments in cannabis legalization. *Current role provided for identification purposes only. Views expressed in Jose’s work and during the presentation may not necessarily reflect those of the Oregon Court of Appeals.

William Garriott is Professor and Chair of the Law, Politics, and Society Program at Drake University. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Princeton University and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between law, crime, and criminal justice, with specific interest in drugs, addiction, and policing. He is the author of Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America as well as the edited collections Addiction Trajectories, Policing and Contemporary Governance, andThe Anthropology of Police. His work has appeared in journals such as Anthropological Theory and Law and Social Inquiry, where he also serves on the editorial board. He is former coeditor-in-chief of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. He currently serves as coeditor of the book series, Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance with Cornell University Press. He is currently completing a book on marijuana legalization.

Professor Garriott teaches courses in the core LPS curriculum, including Introduction to Law, Politics, and Society; Critical Concepts in Law, Politics, and Society; and Senior Seminar. His elective courses include Law and Order, Crime and Film, and Drugs, Law, and Society.

Beau Kilmer is codirector of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, a senior policy researcher at RAND, and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

His research lies at the intersection of public health and public safety, with special emphasis on substance use, illegal markets, crime control, and public policy. Some of his current projects include assessing the consequences of cannabis legalization (with a special focus on social equity); measuring the effect of 24/7 Sobriety programs on impaired driving, domestic violence, employment, and mortality; analyzing changes in illegal fentanyl markets; and considering the implications of legalizing psychedelics.

Kilmer’s publications have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Science. His commentaries have been published by CNN, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, among others. Two editions of his coauthored book on cannabis legalization were published by Oxford University Press; his coauthored book on the future of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids was published by RAND.

Kilmer served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Public Health Consequences of Changes in the Cannabis Policy Landscape. In 2023, he was elected as vice president of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy. He received his Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University, M.P.P. from the University of California, Berkeley, and B.A. in international relations from Michigan State University.

Dr. Magaly Ordoñez is a Latinx Sexualities Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Utah. They completed their PhD in Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Their dissertation, Cannabis Spaces, Relationships, and Relajos, researched the experiences of Chicanx and Latinx LGBTQ+ communities that have contributed to cannabis cultural and political histories through feminist archival, ethnographic, and mixed qualitative methodologies with emphasis on gendered and racialized social structures. Their research examines historical and contemporary cannabis culture in California, to understand how queer of color cannabis histories and spaces refuse subversion to a capitalist cannabis industry by centering care, cannabis education, and political advocacy. They argue that marginalized communities across California foster landscapes of political and cultural resistance within and beyond the limits of cannabis legality. Dr. Ordoñez is originally from Los Angeles, California and was raised in the immigrant neighborhoods of Westlake/MacArthur Park, Pico-Union, and Koreatown.