National Debate on the Use of Marijuana
The National Debate on the Use of Marijuana was called on November 9, 2015 by the President of Mexico to hear the position of citizens regarding the use of marijuana. The Convocation was organized by the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Health. Four regional forums were organized around four central axes: 1) Public health and prevention, 2) Ethics and human rights, 3) Economic and regulatory aspects and 4) Citizen security. The objective was to generate a space for democratic deliberation and that the different positions would contribute to define the policies and actions. Researchers, academics, professionals in medicine, law, psychology, members of civil society and other people with technical qualifications were invited to participate.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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