Drogas da medicina à repressão policial: a cidade do Rio de Janeiro entre 1921 e 1945

Abstract

This study tried to analyze the process of criminalization of drugs in Brazil. The city of Rio de Janeiro during the years between 1921 and 1945 was taken as the limit space and time that this research aimed to understand how the camps were established for the interdiction of drugs criminalized i n those years. Were the medical discourse on the matter produced in the minutes of the National Academy of Medicine, the National League for Mental Hygiene and the National League Against Alcoholism, looking back to support their arguments on purpose of making illegal drugs. The medical view by its social function of this field of knowledge at the time extends by society bringing other crucial sectors in the preparation of the proscription of drugs. Thus, the perception of the law by reading the letter of the law itself and legal outlined here only by the forensic vision were also analyzed. In this ultimately instance, reports of police chiefs and specialized magazines of the corporation were analyzed. Using socio-anthropological divisions in a diachronic perspective, the search has newspapers, magazines, academic and literary production of the time, besides the police speeches and their daily practice against drugs to set racial issues, social, political, ideological and others. The research focuses on the implications of these guidelines in the culture of drugs developed for observing how social institutions forged instruments of control and repression.