Security or Human Rights? An analysis of the Cannabis legalization process in Uruguay
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21530/ci.v18n3.2023.1407Keywords:
Uruguay, Drug policy, cannabisAbstract
Considering the Cannabis legalization process in Uruguay, we worked on the hypothesis
that the country’s strategy was based on a security logic, in contrast to global pro-cannabis
discourses. Using qualitative analysis techniques and the theoretical-methodological framework
of the Drug Policy Framework, we concluded that the appeal to the security logic was the
way to change the legal status of cannabis, because, in the dimension of moral values, the
defense of human rights would not mobilize legal transformations. The main contradiction
in this process is that historically and internationally, security arguments underpin drug
prohibition and its repressive policies.
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