Lorena Repetto is a Uruguayan political scientist, Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science of the Universidad de la República (Udelar), with a master’s in Public Policy and a doctoral candidacy in Political Science. She is a researcher in the Latin American Marijuana Research Initiative (LAMRI) and her work focuses on public policy, cannabis regulation and public security. She has co-authored a peer-reviewed study featured on the ICEERS website on research methodology in the comparative study of cannabis social clubs.