Desentorpecer a razão - o papel social do jornalismo na concepção da política de "guerra às drogas"

Abstract

This experimental project consists of a series of magazine’s articles about the prohibitionism and its consequences. Thus, the study aims to discuss journalism’s social role in designing the policy of “war on drugs” and the shallow and stereotypical way the media deals with the issue. It is understood the report as a genre that lets you work with the agenda in depth and magazine journalism as a privileged space of the report allowing a greater questioning of the subject. Controversial issues as the prohibitionism require the journalist an environment perception and subject characteristics and a very accurate research so as not to fall into the stereotypes and stigmas that surround the theme. A series of reports presented in this paper consists of five reports , which focuses respectively history of the criminalization of drugs, human rights , drug laws , harm reduction and new alternatives to prohibition.