LEGAL MEDICINE: THE MEDICAL DISCOURSE, THE MARIJUANA PROHIBITION AND THE BLACK CRIMINALIZATION
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This article aims to arouse discussion on the prohibition of marijuana and its relation to the criminalization of black people. Based on evolutionary and racial theories, professionals in the newly opened Brazilian Forensic Medicine started to focus more on the patient than the disease, more on the criminal than the crime. Through a combination of consumption of marijuana to blacks, scholars of the subject felt that the nation was "threatened" by the use of plant and by these populations considered undesirable. Following international guidelines, Brazil eventually pursue a policy of demonizing marijuana and sanitation of the population, "degenerate" from the beginning of their African origin and becoming even more "dangerous" by the consumption of marijuana.
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