Guerra às drogas: a gênese do proibicionismo

Abstract

The history of drugs in Brazil and in the world has its beginning with the own human kind, with the migrations and posteriorly with the great navegations, they spread across the globe carried by the man in the most varied forms of use and contexts. Going through one of the first prohibitionism experiences, the problem of opium in China is analyzed, planted in India and transported by the british and its consequences of the first and second opium war that culminated in the creation of Hong Kong. The genesis of international politics with the north american Prohibition Law and subsequent repression of cannabis use by marginalized social layers, which is headed by Brazil and United States in the international scenery. The “war against drugs” by Nixon and Reagan, the cocaine in Colombia and the power of the cartils. The hashish from Morocco that is sold in Netherlands. As the Criminal Law is used to perpetuate repressive public politics that seek the prison as solution, perpetuating the corruption cicle, violence and economic interests. Analyzing in criminology light the moral panic, the role of institutions and the state agents and the distortion of the real combat to criminality. And the discussions in the three power spheres and civil society.