// Definition
Dr. Dominic Corva's analytical framework describing the current US cannabis landscape as a state of ongoing prohibition that coexists with partial legalization, rather than a post-prohibition era, emphasizing that eradication and enforcement continue alongside licensed markets.
// From the Episode
Corva argues the word 'legalization' misleadingly implies freedom when the reality includes no homegrow in states like Washington, continued federal prohibition, and corporate capture of licensing. He traces how different stakeholder coalitions — medical patients, racial justice advocates, commercial interests, environmentalists — each attached different meanings to 'legalization,' producing regulatory frameworks that serve competing agendas rather than plant freedom.