Policy influence and the legalized cannabis industry: learnings from other addictive consumption industries
Policy influence and the legalized cannabis industry: learnings from other addictive consumption industries
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10.1111/add.15483
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发表时间：
2021-03-26
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Wilkins, Chris
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作者：
Adams, Peter J.;Rychert, Marta;Wilkins, Chris
背景和目的新西兰最近使药用大麻合法化，并探讨了使大规模娱乐性大麻供应合法化的可能性。在这一过程中，人们开始担心，参与大规模生产和销售合法大麻的公司是否会投资于对决策者和公众施加影响的策略。本文旨在研究合法化的大麻产业可能寻求影响政府和公众在新西兰改革context.Method的各种方式的研究与酒精，烟草和赌博的行业策略的基础上，我们应用了一个三链模型的行业影响力，打破策略到“公共产品”，“知识”和“政治”链。结果探索性分析新生的大麻产业的活动在新西兰提供的迹象，行业影响力的战略有关的所有三个链。药用大麻行业将建立法律的大麻部门与区域经济发展和就业联系起来，支持游说娱乐法改革，资助参与游说法律改革的非政府组织，与大学建立研究伙伴关系，邀请前政治家参加咨询委员会，结论有新的证据表明，法律的大麻业正在利用各种战略，新西兰的监管环境。
Background and aim New Zealand has recently legalized medicinal cannabis and has explored the possibility of legalizing large-scale recreational cannabis supply. In the process, concerns have emerged regarding whether corporations involved in the large-scale production and sale of legalized cannabis will invest in tactics of influence with policymakers and the public. This paper aimed to examine the various ways a legalized cannabis industry could seek to influence governments and the public in the New Zealand reform context.Method Based on the study of industry tactics with alcohol, tobacco and gambling, we applied a three-chain model of industry influence that breaks tactics into the 'public good', 'knowledge' and 'political' chains.Results Exploratory analysis of the nascent cannabis industry's activity in New Zealand provided signs of industry influence strategies related to all three chains. The medicinal cannabis industry has associated the establishment of a legal cannabis sector with regional economic development and employment, supported lobbying for recreational law reform, funded NGOs involved in lobbying for law reform, established research partnerships with universities, invited ex-politicians on advisory boards, and participated in government public sector partnerships.Conclusion There is emerging evidence that the legal cannabis industry is using strategies to influence the regulatory environment in New Zealand.