Desestigmatizando el oriente: La gestión juvenil de espacios de consumo de marihuana a través del arte.

Abstract

This chapter offers a general vision about the process of stigmatization of marijuana users in Mexico throughout the 20th century and the changes that we are witnessing at the beginning of the 21st century; these changes show a greater activism in favor of marijuana, in particular of young people from popular sectors, which go beyond the demand for legal changes. In the first part we show how the prohibition of marijuana was built in Mexico in the 20th century, the records in the literature of the places where marijuana consumption occurred and the stigmatization of its users, especially young people of popular neighborhoods. In the second part, we document practices through which young inhabitants of the East of Mexico City seek to destigmatize marijuana and its use, linking it to cultural activities and the consumption of traditional substances such as pulque.