A economia das drogas ilegais: análise de políticas alternativas

Abstract

The study presented seeks to analyze the policies adopted in the drug market and how today's society approaches this issue. The elaboration was carried out through a bibliographical review based on the criminalization policies of the commerce and consumption of narcotics, trying to understand from the origin of the adoption of this policy model and how it was expanded around the world. Thus, the drug prohibition policy became the focus of the work, investigating evidence that strengthened this adopted ideology, evaluating the efficiency of this policy in eliminating drugs from society, investigating alternatives to the drug war. From the analysis, it was possible to notice that the prohibitionist policy becomes ineffective in relation to the proposed objective, since the elimination of this market is practically impossible to be achieved, collaborating only with the dangerousness of a product in which the law and quality of the product, in addition to collaborating with the increase in crime. Therefore, less aggressive policies, aimed at the user's well-being, can have greater influence on decision-making in favor of the user's quality of life, society and the State.