“
There is no such thing as a 'soft drug'.
Drugs are poison, a scourge that we must fight!
", Estimate 80 elected representatives of the Republicans and related parties, who oppose the legalization of cannabis, in a column published by
the Journal du Dimanche
.
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“
In recent weeks, some mayors have revived the debate by calling for the legalization of cannabis use.
We, deputies and senators The Republicans, want to remind you that we are firmly opposed to it,
”write these elected officials including Bruno Retailleau, boss of the LR group in the Senate, Eric Ciotti, deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes, Gérard Longuet, senator for the Meuse, or again Philippe Bas, senator from La Manche.
This forum is a response to that of three mayors of the same LR party who had demanded last week, in the JDD, the legalization of the consumption of cannabis, which they consider to be "
the best means of destroying the traffic and of ruin the traffickers
”.
"
Legalizing the sale of cannabis will lead current sellers to turn to selling other even more dangerous and harmful substances!"
», Answer them the 80 parliamentarians.
In addition, "
it is not because the police have trouble dealing with trafficking that the practice must be legalized!"
", Insist the parliamentarians,"
otherwise it would also be necessary to legalize arms trafficking, tax evasion, prostitution and no longer penalize excessive speeds at the wheel!
"
"
We see in our ridings parents overwhelmed by seeing their child dependent, and families destroyed
", "
friendships disappeared because of drug use, people losing their jobs and young people falling into delinquency to obtain cannabis.
", They insist, seeing there the cause of"
psychosis, schizophrenia, depression, school failure, dropout, desocialization ...
".
"
We share the words of the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin: 'Drugs are shit!'
"Gérald Darmanin had indicated in mid-September that he could not,"
as Minister of the Interior, as a politician tell parents who are fighting to get their children out of addiction to drugs, that we're gonna legalize this shit.
And I say “this shit”
”.
Finally, "
even if cannabis remained theoretically prohibited for minors, we know that children who have seen their parents take drugs will also be consumers, as we can already see for tobacco ...
", further warn elected officials.