Mothers as Pot Legalizers: From Illegality to Morality in Medical Use of Cannabis in Latin America

Velez, Luis Rivera

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05039-9_5

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“…Literature on Chile's political system and policymaking has highlighted the importance of the executive branch in lawmaking (Alemán & Navia, 2016; Aninat et al, 2006; Olavarria‐Gambi, 2016). The limited literature on drug policy reforms in Chile has highlighted the lack of presidential backing (Becerra, 2020; Huerta Orellana & Navarro Clavería, 2015; Ibañez, 2018; Rivera‐Veléz, 2019; Sánchez, 2018; Vergara, 2016). Expanding on both these findings by drawing on the combination of process tracing and counterfactual analysis, this article highlights that there is more to the failure of cannabis reform in Chile than the lack of presidential support.…”

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“…The “traditional” cannabis activists—collectives of cannabis growers and consumers—had limited resources, reach, and resonance. Newcomer activists, often mothers focusing on medicinal uses of cannabis for their suffering children, saw a more sympathetic reception from the media and decisionmakers (Rivera‐Vélez, 2019). The emergence of medical activists introduced more appealing messages and messengers and a more pragmatic and elite‐centered approach to the cannabis reform movement.…”

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“…Whereas cannabis reforms elsewhere in Latin America have received some attention (Labiano, 2019; Martínez, 2020; Rivera‐Vélez, 2019), mostly in the case of Uruguay's pioneering 2013 legalization (Lissidini & Pousadelas, 2018; Queirolo et al, 2019; von Hoffmann, 2020), there is a lack of studies of negative cases in general and the Chilean case in particular. Of the few publications that deal with contemporary Chilean drug policy, most are descriptive or temporally limited (Ibañez, 2018; Sánchez, 2018; Huerta Orellana & Navarro Clavería, 2015; Vergara, 2016).…”

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Where there is smoke, there is fire? Making sense of the past failure and future prospects of cannabis reform in Chile

von Hoffmann

2023

Latin American Policy

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A decade ago, cannabis reform was on the public and political agenda in Chile, but the reform process eventually broke down with no marijuana legalization. This article focuses on the different stages of agenda politics to explain the reasons for the failure of cannabis reform in Chile. Drawing on original data, including 36 interviews with key actors, the article traces the reform process. Through a combination of process tracing and counterfactual analysis, the article establishes the causal weight of explanatory factors and distinguishes between activities and their effects. The evidence shows that cannabis reform in Chile failed not only because of a lack of governmental support and agenda setting but also because reform proponents were unable and unwilling to maintain the agenda after initially setting it successfully. By contrast, insider and outsider reform opponents were effective at agenda denial and counter‐framing cannabis reform. Despite producing lots of smoke, recreational cannabis reform efforts have burned out without blazing the trail toward marijuana legalization in Chile. By unearthing the factors that led to initial success in gaining attention and to eventual failure in securing approval in the recent past, this article points out the difficulties of legalizing marijuana in Chile in the near future.

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Where there is smoke, there is fire? Making sense of the past failure and future prospects of cannabis reform in Chile

von Hoffmann

2023

Latin American Policy

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“…Con relación a tales cambios, la literatura antropológica relevada en la región ha considerado los procesos de movilización y las prácticas políticas de activistas que colocaron la regulación del cannabis en la agenda legislativa (Corbelle, 2016;Musto, 2018;Prado;Veríssimo, 2017). Asimismo, los abordajes se han detenido en las interacciones entre usuarios terapéuticos, sus familiares y cultivadores en el marco de organizaciones de la sociedad civil (Góngora, 2019;Motta, 2020); esas descripciones han enfocado incluso las gramáticas morales y los repertorios emocionales accionados por las madres de niños y adolescentes cuyas patologías encontraron alivio en la utilización terapéutica de cannabis (Rivera-Vélez, 2019). Otros análisis han llamado la atención sobre la formulación del cannabis medicinal como problema público y la conformación de redes sociotécnicas híbridas en las que la planta de cannabis y sus derivados sufrieron transformaciones, deviniendo herramientas terapéuticas y productos de un mercado regulado Aguilar;Romero, 2021;Figueiredo;Veríssimo, 2016;Oliveira, 2016;Aguilar, 2020).…”

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Un Recorrido Panorámico por Iniciativas Educativas sobre Cannabis en Argentina

Díaz

2023

Mediações - Rev. Cien. Soc.

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Este artículo toma como punto de partida la proliferación de trayectos de formación sobre cannabis en la Argentina contemporánea y se pregunta por sus condiciones de surgimiento y posibilidad. El análisis considera como fundamentales los aportes realizados durante las últimas décadas por una trama diversa de actores sociales que incluye a cultivadores, activistas, usuarios terapéuticos de cannabis y sus familiares, profesionales de la salud y la ciencia. A través de un abordaje etnográfico, este trabajo ofrece un panorama de iniciativas educativas que han integrado los repertorios de las organizaciones sociales cannábicas: talleres de cultivo y de elaboración de preparados; seminarios de cannabis medicinal y cursos en el ámbito universitario. El estudio de continuidades y cambios entre tales espacios nos permite observar transformaciones en los saberes sobre cannabis y en las dinámicas de movilización social.

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