Sergio rubin
08/13/2021 8:50 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/13/2021 8:50 PM
The Church harshly criticized President Alberto Fernández's willingness to promote
a debate "without hypocrisy"
on the legalization of marijuana and "take steps" in that direction. It was through a statement by the National Commission for the Pastoral Care of Addictions and Drug Dependence of the Episcopal Conference in which it considers
"inexplicable that today there is talk of hypocrisy" in the
face of this issue "in the context of poverty and indigence that hundreds of thousands of people live in. adolescents and young people ”.
“The political class follows an agenda that
is not of this time
in the popular neighborhoods, nor of the middle classes already resigned to their decline. That is why they try to teach the very poor who originated them or speak of recreational use of cannabis as if we were a Nordic country ", says the statement entitled" Let's talk about Hypocrisy "in which, however, the President is not mentioned, but It leaves no doubt that it is its main recipient, although
not the only one
.
In an interview with the Filo News site this week, the president said about the legalization of marijuana: “I have no problem generating these debates. In all these things I am someone very liberal and everyone has the right
to do whatever they want with their life, also to hurt themselves
. What the State has to warn you is that you are harming yourself and move forward if that damage puts others at risk ”. In any case, he pointed out that "more damage is caused by alcohol and no one is affected by it."
In the declaration, the Church affirms that “those of us who live and work in popular neighborhoods, and are not tourists in them, know of the damage caused by alcohol and marijuana in children, adolescents and young people abandoned to their fate by a State of character liberal. Without more help so that they can develop their lives as God intended - he adds - they end up
trapped in drugs
that condition them for life ”.
"What the government and the opposition should be discussing today is the real way in which these young people can
access decent work
in the poorest neighborhoods," he underlines.
He considers that “hypocrisy continues to be not responding to that great demand that has been in our country for years: how to create jobs?
Is there a business that we Argentines should know about and that is hidden in this kind of search for youth votes with promises sponsored by cannabis merchandising? "
"Each one has the right to do with his life what he wants, also to harm himself," said the President.
He adds that “from the Addictions Commission of the Catholic Church we have spoken many times about this issue, but economic and political interests prevail. The
bourgeois gaze
of pro-government sectors and of the opposition - indicated - has nothing to do with an integral and popular sense of life ”. Have we still not settled the debt with so many deaths with Argentina due to covid and are we already looking to collide once more with our wounded people? "
And he continues to ask himself: “Is the proposal to legalize marijuana when
we
still
do not have places of recovery
for the thousands of boys and girls who are disappearing because of the consumption of paco?
Is the proposal to legalize marijuana when the vast majority of young people in our poorest neighborhoods do not finish high school and cannot find work? "
"Is the proposal to legalize marijuana when in our poorest neighborhoods
there is no water, sewers, electricity, school, club
?
Is the proposal to legalize marijuana when we have more boys and girls flogged by drugs in prisons than in recovery homes?
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