Abstract
The aim of this article is to reflect on Anti-Drug City Councils (COMADs) having as the main idea the proposal done by the Brazilian Anti-Drug Policy. In this way, it starts from the conception of the contradictory space that covers the councils of policy and, in specific, as the creation of the Councils in 10% of the Brazilian cities that had not resulted in its effective implementation. For this analysis it was used a data base supplied by the Anti-Drug National Department (Senad) and a research applied to the State and City Councils (by E-mail) using a questionnaire developed for this end. Making an analysis of this policy, it is identified that the situation of the COMADs shows that Brazil does not practice it, what corresponds to a situation in which its proposal in federal and state level depends on specific decisions taken in the city sphere. And the city decisions the COMADs creation do not come followed by conditions for its full effectiveness.
Highlights
E December, 2009 reduction of the offer through the combat to the drug traffic and the money laundering (Ribeiro, 2000)
The innovative action of these spaces was limited to punctual interferences: as the evaluation of prevention campaigns released in the media, in an attempt to rethink the repressive content of the same ones; it implemented a debate that resulted in the legalization of Santo Daime (5); creation of the communal council in the CONEN-RJ, with representation of many sectors of the society (NGOs, institutions in the area of drugs, universities, entities of students etc)
As a space of democracy construction, the Anti-drug Council is requiring a balance sheet makes possible to uncover the obstructions for its accomplishment
Summary
As for the current issue of drugs, all this dynamics inscribes itself in the adoption of legislations for the majority of countries that follow the agreements of Single Convention on Narcotics Drugs of 1961 and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971. Of a speech centered in a sanitary concern of drug trafficking eradication, the interests of the U.S.A. with the ones of the internal elites match, what practically can be translated contents that can disclose an economic dispute in direction of the illicit business (Ribeiro, 2000) From this historical description, it realizes that drug policies can be understood from different points of view: first, it believes that the “problem” will disappear when eliminating the use. This requires that it carries out urgently a balance, pointing out difficulties for full accomplishment of actions
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