Drogas: uma viagem entre o ritualístico, a desvirtuação e as possíveis soluções

Abstract

The present research shows a historical journey through the appearance of narcotic substances, passing through its relationship with man, how they used it and what effects it had on ancient society, passing through the era of navigation in which the said began to have its distorted mystical value, starting to have a commercial value and, as a result, bringing countless problems to humanity. At the beginning of the 20th century, measures were created to contain them, the most famous being the one that persists to this day in Brazil, the punitivism that led the country to adopt a necropolitics of control, which has been failing over the years, being then necessary find solutions to resolve the confrontation entitled in the 70s with the name of war on drugs.