Senator Guido Manini Ríos assured that the legalization of marijuana increased the number of addicts in the country.
After it became known that at least two thirds of Uruguayan parliamentarians agreed with regulating the drugsthe senators Guido Manini Ríos and Guillermo Domenechof Open Town Hall (CA)they pointed out against the positions of their fellow legislators.
This Tuesday, Manini Rios He stated that in his party “they are against the liberalization of drugs” and they believe that “the law that legalized marijuana only increased the number of addicts in the country.” “It is evident that more and more is consumed drugs in the country,” he shot.
According to Telemundo, Manini Rios proposed that, instead of legalizing all drugsa massive campaign should be “carried out, at all levels, to make people aware of the tremendous damage” caused by them.
On the other hand, he pointed directly to the National Drug Board (JND)and his national secretary, Daniel Radioafter he announced the presentation of a project to eliminate the registration of cannabis buyers and the addition of new premises for sale.
“Here you can’t try to compete to see who makes the best marijuana with drug traffickers, what you have to look for is that people don’t consume more,” he said. Manini Rios about.
Domenech: “It seems like a disaster to me”
For its part, Domenech He said that he finds the current JND administration “a disaster,” since “it has completely made invisible the damage that drugs cause to youth.”
Domenech positioned itself as “totally opposed” to the regulation of the drugssince, “we have had bad results with the legalization of marijuana” in Uruguay.
“If this policy were not adopted at the global level, the Uruguay would become a kind of Kathmandu“, in reference to the capital of Nepala mecca for Western hippies during the sixties.
Source: Ambito
