Yerba verde. Subalternidad narrativa sobre la criminalización del consumo cannábico en la Ciudad de México

Abstract

This text seeks to expose, from a subjective point of view, what it meant to face the stigma related to cannabis use on public roads in Mexico City in 2014. What was found as an advance in terms of regulation and decriminalization in 2009 on the carrying up to five grams of said plant, on the contrary, led to greater criminalization of consumers. It is emphasized that from then on the number of remittances to the Judiciary meant an increase in relation to previous years. To delve into it, the narrative is used in epistemological terms to present analytical results. In this way, the author of this text is alluded to, who intends to highlight the asymmetries of power crystallized in the relationship between the State and the citizens. This is considered an autoethnographic problematization that, over time, implies a rememoration of the event and suggests a turning point related to the historitization of the cannabis stigmatization process in Mexico City. Thus, the autoethnographic narrative aims to draw a panorama of contrast between the official discourses and those considered as subaltern. It starts from a constructivist-type phenomenological framework in accordance with a critical posture of discourse, since it is understood that language is an organizer of daily life where asymmetric power relations are reproduced. This position will be strengthened with some statistical data on drug use and trafficking in Mexico.