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Cannabis legalization: the relapse

2022-08-11T16:45:14.864Z


Two years after a forum calling for the sale to be authorized, 29 socialist senators are relaunching the debate.


This initial proposal, formulated in the summer torpor and having a priori no chance of succeeding, makes one think of a relapse.

Two years after a column, on June 18, 2020 in

L'Obs

, by around sixty elected officials from Bouches-du-Rhône who had unsuccessfully launched "

After the Covid-19 crisis, we must legalize cannabis, quickly!

“, a collective of 29 socialist senators dreams of resuscitating this old sea serpent aiming to no longer prohibit this trade.

Led by Gilbert-Luc Devinaz, elected representative of the Rhône, they undertake, via a forum in Thursday's

Le Monde

, to table a bill aimed at "

legalizing cannabis

" to "

further protect citizens

".

Standing wind against a "

repression

» which they consider «

inefficient and unfair

», the signatories consider that the prohibition «

maintains neighborhoods in a very strong dependence on trafficking and results in unbearable insecurity and violence for the inhabitants

».

Sweeping away the idea of ​​a “

decriminalization, characterized by maintaining…

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Source: lefigaro

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