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Cannabis: "A health, safety… and political issue at the same time"

2021-09-16T18:00:27.263Z


COUNTER-POINT - On drugs as on all sovereign subjects, Emmanuel Macron operated a real Copernican revolution.


Beauvau against Ségur, safety or health: the clash of positions is a classic.

On the issue of cannabis, Gérald Darmanin and Olivier Véran embody two opposing views.

The first makes the crackdown on traffickers the weapon against a drug that the Minister of the Interior regularly qualifies as

"shit"

.

The second

“looks with interest”

at countries that have legalized cannabis.

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It would be abusive to oppose these two ministerial approaches in every way.

By refusing any inflection on drug regulation, and betting on repression, Darmanin does not dispute the need for better health monitoring of smokers.

The green light given by Jean Castex to the town hall of Paris for "consumption rooms at lower risk" is not, moreover, a disavowal of the strategy of the Minister of the Interior.

Likewise, by showing himself to be a supporter of a relaxation of the legislation, the doctor Véran assures to be part of an exclusively sanitary logic and in no way libertarian.

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Source: lefigaro

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