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Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Salazar and the second or maternal family name is Viniegra.
Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra
Photograph of Salazar
Salazar, c. 1930
Born(1898-12-17)December 17, 1898[1]
Pánuco de Coronado Municipality or San Juan del Río Municipality, Durango, Mexico
DiedSeptember 23, 1957(1957-09-23) (aged 58)[1]
Mexico City, Mexico
Alma materNational Autonomous University of Mexico[2]
Known forScientific investigations on cannabis and other psychoactive substances, promoting legalization of psychoactive substances in Mexico
Scientific career
FieldsPsychiatry
InstitutionsLa Castañeda

Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra (December 17, 1898 – September 23, 1957) was a Mexican doctor, psychiatrist, writer and professor whose scientific investigations influenced the legalization of drugs during the Lázaro Cárdenas administration in 1940.[3][4]

It was at La Castañeda, the institution where Salazar worked for more than twenty years, where he led many scientific investigations into the effects of marijuana.[3] These investigations, detailed in his report "El mito de la marihuana" (English: The Myth About Marijuana), helped Salazar launch into the national public discourse the de-stigmatization of drug addiction and its treatment as a disease, not a crime.[4] Due to increasing political and economic pressure from the United States government and a U.S. campaign to discredit Salazar, the law was repealed on July 3, 1940.[2] Salazar dedicated his final years to studying mental health illnesses until his death in 1957 in Mexico City.[5]

  1. ^ a b Flores Guevara, Mariana. "La alternativa mexicana al marco internacional de prohibición de drogas durante el cardenismo." [The Mexican Alternative to the International Framework of Drug Prohibition During the Cárdenas Years.] Bachelor’s thesis, El Colegio de México (2013).
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference El Universal-2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b Ocaña Salazar, Magali; Olvera Hernández, Nidia (May 24, 2018). "El psiquiatra que luchó contra los cuerdos para despenalizar las drogas". Chacruna Latinoamérica (in Mexican Spanish). Archived from the original on December 19, 2022. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference BBC News Mundo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Control de drogas: de Lola la Chata a Salazar Viniegra". www.animalpolitico.com (in Mexican Spanish). Archived from the original on January 26, 2023. Retrieved February 2, 2023.

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