Cannabis and know-medical

conflicts, controversies and disputes over an know-power in Brazil

Abstract

Starting from a genealogy, this article aimed to make a brief analysis about the role of medical-scientific discourse in the construction of a know-power about the social uses of marijuana in Brazil. In this way, it seeks to apprehend the mechanisms of power between two points, that is, on the one hand, the rules of law that formally delimit power and, on the other hand, the truth effects that this power produces, conducts and establishes the triangle power, right and truth. It is considered that the prohibition of marijuana in Brazil constituted a seizure of power over men in the form of a governmental practice of demarcating what should or should not be done, as well as a moral and legal disciplinary power. This biopolitics implemented mechanisms to discipline and control a specific population and know-medical was a crucial knowledge-power for this. Therefore, it can be considered that the discourses of medical-scientific know continue to be relevant both for maintaining and reversing this idea of  abnormality, as these discourses of know are fundamental to maintain or change this notion of abnormality around social uses of marijuana.

Keywords: Cannabis. Know-Medical. Constitution. Know-power. Brazil.