PROIBICIONISMO DA CANNABIS NO BRASIL E A FALÊNCIA DA POLÍTICA NACIONAL DE DROGAS

Abstract

This research aims to argue about the best method used to modify the drug law in Brazil, regarding cannabis. In addition, it is also intended to problematize the socio-historical path that led cannabis from something acceptable to something criminalized in order to systematize a debate about the effects of prohibition of cannabis. In the proposal to analyze the prohibitionist policy of cannabis, there is a survey of a theoretical network that meets the need for a process of decriminalization or legalization of it. It has as general objective of this research, then, the debate about prohibitionism and criminalization of cannabis in Brazil. Therefore, the methodical foundation of the research is based on a literature review, qualitative, research on public policies that deal with cannabis and the effects of its prohibition. As a result of the research, there is a need for investment/ debates about the process of decriminalization and/ or legalization of cannabis, with the effect of social and economic maintenance of the country. Thus, it is concluded in this research that the current anti-drug law is doomed to failure, either by developing a repressive system or by promoting a system of self-investment to the public coffers, the process of monitoring cannabis use and incarceration of cannabis users.