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Charlotte Meredith
Posted: 20/06/2014 16:12 BST
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Charlotte Meredith
Posted: 20/06/2014 16:12 BST
Pope Francis has come under severe criticism after he denounced the legalisation of recreational drugs. The pontiff waded into the debate over the war on drugs – which is raging from the US to Uruguay and beyond – at a drug-enforcement conference meeting in Rome on Friday, arguing that even limited attempts to legalise recreational drugs "are not only highly questionable from a legislative standpoint, but they fail to produce the desired effects. Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise," he said.
But one of the drug policy experts, who advised the Uruguayan government on its landmark decision to become the first country in the world to make the production, sale and possession of cannabis legal, told The Huffington Post UK the Pope's argument is "confused."
Rolles previously told HuffPost that the battle in the UK is now to try and change the more "old school" political attitude towards cannabis and the steadfast idea that "drugs are bad". Nearly a century ago cannabis, along with other drugs, was identified as "evil, a threat to be fought in a winnable war that would completely eradicate the non-medical use of these substances," Transform said in their Practical Guide on how to regulate cannabis. The experience of the past 50 years demonstrates that prohibitionist policies have not, and cannot, achieve their stated aims."
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