The international advance of cannabis regulation and the unjustifiable Brazilian backwardness

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Cannabis, Marijuana, Brazil, Drug Policy, Americas

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For 10 years the world has witnessed a huge transformation in terms of drug policy. Several countries and federative units have eased restrictions on the industrial, medicinal, and even recreational use of cannabis. This plant, which, for almost a hundred years, was internationally identified as one of the most dangerous drugs in the world, has become a lucrative and legal commodity, as well as a medicine with multiple uses. The American continent concentrates the largest number of these initiatives. Brazil, however, going against the grain of this process, refuses to advance in the regulation of this plant, keeping it illegal and feeding all the sociopolitical ills arising therefrom. This is an increasingly unjustifiable position from the point of view of the common good.

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Dr. Paulo José dos Reis Pereira, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC - São Paulo/SP

Doutor em ciência política pela UNICAMP. Mestre em relações internacionais pela UNESP. Livre-docente em relações internacionais pela PUC-SP. Professor associado da área de relações internacionais da PUC-SP, do Programa de Pós-graduação San Tiago Dantas Unesp/Unicamp/PUC-SP e do Mestrado Profissional em Governança Global e Formulação de Políticas Internacionais da PUC-SP. Ccoordenador do Grupo de Pesquisas Internacionais sobre Políticas de Drogas da PUC-SP e membro da rede internacional Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, no campo Reforma das Políticas de Drogas. Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4134320556926918

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2023-08-02

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dos Reis Pereira, D. P. J. (2023). The international advance of cannabis regulation and the unjustifiable Brazilian backwardness. Boletim IBCCRIM, 31(369). Retrieved from https://publicacoes.ibccrim.org.br/index.php/boletim_1993/article/view/608

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Vol. 31 No. 369 (2023): Boletim IBCCRIM - Agosto

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LAUT - Centro de análise da liberdade e do autoritarismo

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