Stop Me Project

Marty Otañez is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, CU Denver. He is a member of the American Anthropological Association. Otañez’ research and advocacy focuses on tobacco industry farm-level exploitation, corporate accountability, digital health stories, and the health and safety of cannabis workers in Colorado's marijuana sector. In fall 2014 he started preliminary visual research on cannabis culture in Colorado’s legal recreational marijuana industry and how individuals in grow houses, extraction facilities, retail shops, testing labs and dispensaries are staying healthy and avoiding job injuries. He is an official badged Key Employee through the Medical Marijuana Occupational License Program in the Marijuana Enforcement Division of the Colorado State Department of Revenue. In summer 2015, he organized and moderated the panel called ‘Legitimacy and Uncertainty: A Fireside Chat about Colorado's Pot Industry’ at the Denver-based Colorado Photographic Arts Center