Wonders and devanies: the social memory involved in the progress of marijuana legalization for medical purposes in Brazil

ABSTRACT Reflecting on the history of the criminalization of marijuana use, addressing cultural and legal aspects, through a line of information and a memory. We pointed out some banning records of the plant, scoring as a social memory, was built around an atmosphere, prohibiting and repressive to use the drug and how it reverberated for long years. It emphasizes how a wave of prohibitionism and repression contributed to the construction of a discriminatory and prejudicial social memory. And the main historical markers in this walk, as well as emphasizing a change in the social context in relation to the question of the legalization of marijuana for medical finances, concluding that it is necessary still the struggle and the resistance so that the advances are realized in form to cover all the social layers of effective form.