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SCHIEVENINI STEFANON, José Domingo. The national prohibition of cannabis in Mexico: historical review of the relationship between law and science. Nóesis, Rev. cienc. soc. [online]. 2021, vol.30, n.60, pp.20-44.  Epub 12-Set-2022. ISSN 2395-8669.  https://doi.org/10.20983/noesis.2021.2.2.

This article documents and analyzes the drug laws that enabled and created the space for the implementation of a prohibitionist paradigm in Mexico. An increasingly punitive government posture was adopted during the period from 1917 to 1947, i.e., between the promulgation of the Constitution and the incorporation of a series of reforms into the Federal Penal Code. The study and analysis of these laws required the documentation of scientific discussions surrounding the legislative process: discussions that sometimes supported and, at others, were critical of the government’s position. Based on this review of the historical documentation-and within the framework of the initial domestic and international prohibitions of cannabis-medical and legal opinions are articulated, and the areas in which science and the law either coincided or entered into conflict are explored.

Palavras-chave : history of drugs; prohibitionism; degeneration; public policy; cannabis; marijuana.