The ban is a joke

Experts recommend not waiting until there are problems to try to tackle them, but to prevent them from childhood by intensifying efforts in pre-adolescence.Enric Cruz

The years continue to accumulate since the merciless war began and the authorities' persecution of manufacturers, sellers and consumers.

The goal since the ban was installed seemed laudable: to prevent humanity from being poisoned, to protect youth, to get addicts out of their labyrinth, to close the door on what has become an almost invisible enemy.

But prohibition did not end consumption.

Those who are eager for that magnificent high have the tricks to access the cursed product.

What does it matter if you have to walk through dark alleys among people of dubious ilk.

What does it matter if you have to have contacts with the underworld to be able to buy what you want.

Neither the laws of the State nor the prayers of the Church serve to contain what is like a hurricane.

That desire to escape even for a few minutes from this world full of difficulties and sadness thanks to a special compound.

At private parties and even in some public places it is seen.

As the night progresses more and more is served.

And the celebrants do not judge.

There is a certain charm in the forbidden.

It seems to make the music louder.

It seems that laughter is louder.

It seems that love is possible and that the harrowing tomorrow is very, very far away.

In contrast to so much joy, the path that the forbidden had to travel to reach the hands of its consumers was not only complex, but also took away the tranquility of the fields and cities.

Prohibition became fertile ground for the appearance of mafias dedicated to the manufacture, transport and marketing of the product.

The mafias began to fight among themselves for control of the territories and there, as in an eternal hourglass, the dead began to shell out.

A massacre there.

A murder here.

Threats go, threats come.

And while the party goes on, the country bleeds to death.

But wasn't the ban going to lead, over the years, to the disappearance of the product and a moral change in those who still consume it?

The years that have passed show that it is not.

That to prohibit is not to disappear, but to hide.

And that hiding has only served the gangsters to become millionaires and powerful and with that money poison politics and members of the armed forces with their corruption.

Death and corruption.

Mafia and party.

Everyone lives and recycle thanks to the ban.

Even when?

The previous paragraphs could have been written in 1928, in the United States, at the time of the prohibition of alcoholic beverages promoted by ultra-conservative sectors.

There were thirteen years during which public health deteriorated due to the sale of adulterated liquor and the constant threat of organized crime sowed terror in the population.

The above paragraphs make perfect sense today, in Colombia, when talking about the life sentence in which the criminalization of a business that we like or does not exist and will exist has submerged us.

Hence the ban is a joke.

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