Harm Principle, bem jurídico-penal e ofensividade : suas implicações relativas ao uso de drogas

Abstract

This study address with the implications (dogmatic and political-criminal) of Harm Principle, Theory of Legal Good and the Principle of Offensiveness concerning the use of drugs. In order to do this, our first two chapters are based on these principles, emphasizing the analysis and problematization aspects of dogmatic and criminal policy. Moreover, since they are the principles of different matrices, the Harm Principle, Anglo-American, and Theory of Legal Good and Offensiveness, continental Europeans, use the methodology of comparative criminal law to provide as bases approach, and to analyze its practical application in relation to the Canadian and Brazilian jurisprudence related to the use of drugs. Thus, it is impossible for a democratic state ruled by law to find an intrasystemic legitimation to prohibit the use of drugs, erroneously considered as illicit, in the case of this criminalization where there is no legitimate legal good and the possibility of affectation of some legal good, both from the perspective of offensiveness and by the Harm Principle, is inconsistent.