Figuras e facetas da lógica proibicionista-medicalizante nas políticas sobre drogas, no Brasil.

Abstract

This paper offers a theoretical analysis of law and norm in the definition of Brazil’s prohibitionist drug policy in recent decades. The central argument advances that drug policies have been based on a prohibitionist perspective. At the core of this stance of legal prohibition, repressive tactics gained social acceptance and were inscribed in a plan towards a normalizing judicial sovereignty. Law and order movements increasingly intercrossed and instituted the criminalization of drug use and the drug trade— particularly for those deemed illegal—by means of an intricate field of governmentalities which resulted in a carceral criminal policy and a medicalized view of legal drug use, including psychotropics. In parallel, a set of discursive and power practices operated jointly to define through a complex system of classification what constitutes a drug and which drugs are to be considered legal or illegal.