Prácticas discursivas del estado Mexicano sobre drogasla construcción de las condiciones que rodean a su uso

Resumen

In recent years, the Mexican drug policy has produced a series of devastating consequences for all the inhabitants of the country. During this period, the policiary and military struggle that safeguards the prohibition of the substances that as a society we have labeled under the name of drugs against the supposedly groups dedicated to the production, distribution and trade of them has been exacerbated. The result, a worrying and outrageous number of murders and disappearances, but not only that, prohibitionism has been unable to achieve the objective of its birth: the decrease in drug use, in fact, it has even increased the damage for people who decide to consume them In this situation, Mexico needs a change in its drug policy to improve our problematic relationship with them and exchange it for another with lesser consequences for people, consumers or not. In this context, we have decided to write a thesis in order to understand the discourse of the Mexican State on drugs. We believe that this work is important because it can help increase the critical awareness of readers and because it scrutinizes the State's understanding of drugs through two important cases. Initially, a first article was made to mapped drug research in Mexico, with the aim of locating trends in studies in order to better understand the study context. Later, another article was made that consists of an argumentative analysis on the sentences with which the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation declared the absolute prohibition of cannabis unconstitutional, with the aim of understanding whether this decision could serve to dismantle a century of prohibition in the country. Finally, a critical discourse analysis on the main drug policy of the current government (2018-2024) was carried out in order to understand a discourse full of ambiguities. The results suggest that the Mexican State understands prohibitionism as an acceptable measure to avoid drug use. On the one hand, the Court accepts cannabis, but without undermining the prohibitionist foundations, only reforming it and, on the other, the Mexican government adopts a narrative supposedly far from the prohibitionist stigma, but it does so only in the form, since a free world of drugs is sought, and the users are held responsible for violence in the country. The State thus justifies prohibitionism from the same consequences emanating from this model.