In Settler Cannabis, Kaitlin Reed demonstrates how the "green rush" is only the most recent example of settler colonial resource extraction and wealth accumulation. Situating the cannabis industry within this broader legacy, the author traces patterns of resource rushing—first gold, then timber, then fish, and now cannabis—to reveal the ongoing impacts on Indigenous cultures, lands, waters, and bodies.

Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) is an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt, the Co-Director of the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges (TEK) Institute. She also serves as her university's TEK Faculty Fellow. Her research is focused on tribal land and water rights, extractive capitalism, and settler colonial political economies. She is an enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe.