The government has made it one of its hobbyhorses.
An awareness campaign against drugs will be launched "before the end of the summer", announced Gérald Darmanin in an interview with the Journal du dimanche, a week after Emmanuel Macron's proposal to open a "big debate" on the subject.
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“The last drug awareness campaign dates back 30 years!
The government will launch a new one before the end of the summer under the authority of the Prime Minister ”, declared to the JDD the Minister of the Interior, who made the fight against drug trafficking his priority.
"Break this taboo"
On the repressive side, Gerald Darmanin affirmed that the police services have carried out since January “more than 1,300 operations of dismantling of the points of deal”, with “important and regular seizures” to the key.
In addition, "more than 70,000 criminal fines" have been issued to consumers since September 1, the date of their generalization.
In a river interview with Le Figaro last Monday, Emmanuel Macron wanted the launch of “a major national debate on drug consumption and its deleterious effects” without detailing how this consultation could be conducted.
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"France has become a country of consumption and therefore, we must break this taboo", estimated the Head of State.
France is the leading country in Europe in terms of the number of cannabis consumers with 1.5 million regular users.
"Cannabis has become a hard drug," Gerald Darmanin told JDD, recalling the "considerable" increase in the level of THC, the psychotropic molecule in cannabis.
