Abstract

LABIANO1, Virginia I.. Medical Cannabis in Argentina: minor change in drug policy subsystem. Rev. Urug. Cienc. Polít. [online]. 2018, vol.27, n.2, pp.75-98. ISSN 0797-9789.  https://doi.org/10.26851/rucp.28.2.

For almost 30 years, different actors have sought to modify law 23,737 that determines drug policy in Argentina; more than twenty projects have been presented at the Chamber of Deputies without success. In March 2017, through a quick legislative process, law 27,350 is approved establishing the regulation of cannabis for medicinal use. This article uses Paul Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith’s Advocacy Coalitions framework to approach theoretically this minor change in politics. It argues that this change can be explained as a result of a struggle between two coalitions with different belief systems regarding the problem and the policy: the prohibitionist and the regulatory; the latter will articulate with a third coalition - the medicinal one - to achieve a cognitive change in the subsystem of politics.

Keywords : drug policy; medicinal cannabis; Advocacy Coalitions; Argentina.

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