Unasur will tackle another drug coverage in Uruguay

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Bogota.– The assembly, which shall be held subsequent week in Montevideo, was introduced by the secretary common and former president of Colombia Ernesto Samper. It will likely be a preparation for the UN common meeting 2016

The Union of South American Nations (Unasur) will maintain a gathering subsequent week in Montevideo (Uruguay) to debate an “different drug coverage,” introduced this Monday the secretary common of that group, the previous president of Colombia Ernesto Samper, experiences Infobae.

The previous president, who has repeatedly defended the necessity to apply a brand new regional method to medicine, made the announcement on his Twitter social community account, with out giving extra particulars concerning the content material of the occasion or the agenda of actions.

A supply from the final secretariat informed the EFE company that the goal is to achieve a proposal on the problem for the 2016 UN common meeting.

On a private word, Samper is in favor of “another coverage” that’s not based mostly “on legalization as a substitute for prohibition,” however on “slowly dismantling prohibitionist norms,” ​​as he mentioned in an interview with Efe in October.

“Right now we’re robust with the farmers, we’re robust with the ‘mules’ that transport (medicine), we’re robust with the customers and we’re weak with the legal organizations,” he declared.

And he advocated prosecuting crime and never criminalizing these “weak hyperlinks within the chain”, in addition to making use of mechanisms “to assist them get out of the issue.”

Uruguay, which would be the scene of the assembly, legalized the sale and home manufacturing of marijuana, which was praised as a “courageous” path within the struggle in opposition to drug trafficking by Samper himself throughout a go to to Montevideo additionally in October.

“I really feel that there are new world winds to assessment the prohibitionist coverage to fight medicine, which has solely given 300 million customers,” Samper acknowledged on the time.

The previous president of Colombia (1994-1998) thought-about on that event that “eventually the world must separate marijuana from the remainder of the medicine. If it achieves this, it could permit a special therapy for it”, which is able to make it doable to unravel “60% of the drug downside on this planet.”