POLICIES ON DRUG IN GOVERNMENTS OF THE PARTIDO DOS TRABALHADORES AND FRENTE AMPLA: Agenda formation and approval of laws 11.343/06 in Brazil and 19.172/13 in Uruguay..
Public policy, agenda formation, law, drugs, Brazil, Uruguay.
This work sought to analyze drug policies, starting from the conception that there is an international regime of prohibition. We aimed to understand, through the methodology adopted by the government of the Workers' Party from 2002 to 2016, the historical process of the formation of public policies on drugs, their impact on the world, and the particular case of Brazil in the face of the so-called international regime of prohibition. We analyzed, in this way, the actors involved, namely the legislative performance of representatives from certain sectors of society, in the approval of Law 11,343 and its repercussions in Brazilian society. We observed the inequalities produced by the subjectivity of the law in distinguishing between users and traffickers, and how these inequalities relate to the long history of violation produced by the prohibitionist model. On the other hand, we examined the drug policy model adopted by Uruguay, which, by approving Law No. 19,172 on the Regulation and Control of the Cannabis Market, positioned itself at the forefront of the world by becoming the first country to regulate the entire cannabis market. We presented the challenges faced by this measure and how it was received on the international stage. We demonstrated that the formation of the country's agenda goes through a process of multiple flows, that is, there is more than one path that led the regulation agenda to the highest levels of government. Thus, we provided the numbers obtained from the implementation of regulation and control of cannabis users and their impact on Uruguayan society during the governments of the Frente Ampla.