Otanez on marijuana and tobacco

Published: July 21, 2017

Marty Otañez, Anthropology Associate Professor, has been studying the state’s marijuana industry. He’s met multiple cannabis workers who are on their way to becoming homeless, and it’s left him convinced that it’s time for people in charge of the industry to address the problem.  And earlier this summer, Otañez  co-facilitated a three-day training on tobacco industry documents research in Africa with team members from the organization he co-founded called Tobacco Industry Documents Research in Africa based in the Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa.

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