Nature, culture, and prohibition: from the ritual origins of drug consumption to contemporary legal regulation
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https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2025.92250Keywords:
Drugs, nature, culture, prohibition, free will, lawAbstract
This essay explores the relationship between nature and culture through the consumption of psychoactive drugs, tracing their ancestral uses to their punitive regulation in the contemporary world. We analyze how certain substances, consumed for centuries without restrictions, were later intervened by medical-legal devices that reconfigured their social perception, shifting them from ritualistic and medicinal contexts to criminalization. This prohibition not only altered consumption patterns but also fueled the emergence of illicit structures profiting from drug trafficking, leading us to consider narcotrafficking as a legal construction operating under economic and political interests. In this sense, we discuss the inherent links between culture, extreme consumption, and law, highlighting how regulations undermine free will and define the boundaries between legality and illegality, transforming the socio-cultural dynamics surrounding the ingestion of psychoactive substances.
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