Contexto sócio-histórico da guerra às drogas no Brasil: o proibicionismo e as desigualdades sociais e raciais

Abstract

This article has as its theme, war on drugs. The objective of this study is to reflect on the social consequences of the war on drugs policy and the logic of prohibitionism. This is a qualitative literature review, based on the critical dialectic method. The National Drug Policy is also presented, and finally, these themes are related in order to conclude that the War on Drugs and Prohibitionism allow control and repression to be directed at specific people, with mechanisms of domination and control, responding to the needs of the bourgeoisie, and also repressing the movements that fight against inequality in the country. Thus, it is understood that prohibitionism and the war on drugs are strategic ways to reinforce the social and racial inequalities already rooted in the country and sustained by the basic principles of a capitalist society.