The Politics of the War on Drugs

: the racial implications in the socio-historical constitution.

Abstract

Drugs are commonly understood by people as a social problem, generating violence, inequality and harm to health. However, before a drug becomes a social problem, it is initially a commodity, which brings together different interests. This article proposes to bring to light the discussion about the conduct of Brazilian policies on drugs, in view of the slave model that permeates the nation's constitution since its colonization by Portugal, and the social control projects crossed by a eugenic and segregating culture , which is constantly updated in a kind of maintenance of spaces of power dispute and political participation. In understanding that it is a complex issue, and that complex issues require complex responses. Drug issues in contemporary society have been presented with enormous depth in the application of public policies and in the form of confrontation applied within territories, with a historical analysis of the subjective processes of the social imaginary. Resulting in impacts on everyday life, bringing problematic situations in social, interpersonal, and economic relationships. By adopting the War on Drugs measures, Brazil aligns itself with the belligerent model of war against certain people. There is no war on an object, wars are aimed at people, groups of people.