Discursos médicos e jurídicos sobre maconha no Brasil e na Paraíba: os contradiscursos no debate sobre as políticas de drogas à luz dos direitos humanos

Abstract

The present work is a qualitative-quantitative research that aims to carry out the critical analysis of the discourses that underpin the current drug policy in the light of human rights. Believing in the relationship between knowledge, power and truth, we will study the interweaving of these categories in the structuring of drug discourses in Brazil and Paraíba - with special emphasis on the discursive analysis of medical and legal knowledge - and from a critique of human rights violations imposed by prohibitionism to drugs. We will try to analyze the insurgent discourses front this authoritarian model of management of the bodies and the uses and customs on drugs. We start from the hypothesis that the current drug policy has become a device structured in practices that violate human rights. The objective that permeates this work is the critique of the hegemonic prohibitionist paradigm at the national level in constant dialogue with the local situation in Paraíba, that we will do from the criticism the falsity of its declared functions, to its result of criminalization of poverty and increase of Police violence and trafficking, the difficulty of implementing the right to marijuana health medical patients, among other evils documented throughout this work. In order to carry out such an attempt, we catalog various data available on the Internet, we officiate to public agencies in the quest to understand the discursive possibilities of confrontation and criticism of current drug policy.