A QUESTÃO DAS DROGAS ILÍCITAS NO BRASIL

Abstract

Since the earliest times, drug use has always been present in society, for man has always sought ways to alter his state of consciousness to attain pleasure or escape the harsh reality. For this reason, it was necessary to implement forms of political, social, cultural and religious control over these substances. This work will address the issue of illicit drugs in Brazil and aims to demonstrate the importance of state control over drug use / consumption by analyzing its prohibitive norms as a means of establishing whether prohibitionism is really the best way to if it is to combat the indiscriminate use of these substances, what are their repercussions in society, as well as to question the current measures adopted on the subject, what are the benefits and harms of the policies adopted, and what changes could be made to correct the observed failures , or even how controlled drug legalization could affect society and those who traffic it.