Emerging industries shouldn’t mean emerging monopolies.
Parabola Center is a nonprofit of legal, public health, and policy professionals coming together to put people over profits. Through research and education, we provide everyone with the tools and expertise to shape emerging fields, from marijuana to artificial intelligence.
New Model Policy
Student-First AI Policy
The Student-First AI Policy gives local school districts a vetting process for any AI tool they consider putting in front of students. Before a product reaches students, it requires independent evidence that it improves learning, protects student privacy, and will not perpetuate discrimination or existing inequities.
Reports & Research
Report
From Legal Reform to Market Formation
Drawing on international expert convenings in Salem, Prague, and Rio de Janeiro, this report separates the regulatory capacity that can transfer between jurisdictions from the commercial market structures that don’t, and identifies design levers that reduce exclusion in emerging cannabis markets.
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Report
The Illusion of Competition
Our new report on the Illinois market maps every active cannabis brand in Illinois to the parent company that controls it, and finds market concentration rising again. That outcome was produced by policy choices: a licensing framework that gave incumbents a multiyear head start, regulators too fragmented to intervene, and a tax structure that hits small producers hardest.
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Research Study
Consumer Perspectives in States with Established Cannabis Markets
Drawing on 37 in-depth interviews with cannabis consumers across nine states where adult-use cannabis has been legal for at least five years, this study shows how consumers see the benefits and limits of legalization in their communities.
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