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He Pope Francisco reiterated on Wednesday its agency opposition to the legalization of drug usedenouncing the “dying traffickers” and the impression of drug trafficking on the surroundings.
“Drug habit is not going to be decreased by liberalizing the usage of medication as has been proposed, or already applied, in some nations. “It is a fantasy,” the pope declared throughout his weekly normal viewers in St. Peter’s Sq., within the Vatican.
A number of nations, together with Canada, Uruguay, Malta and extra not too long ago Germany, have legalized hashish for leisure use..
“It’s a ethical responsibility to place an finish to the manufacturing and trafficking of those harmful substances”added Pope Francis earlier than hundreds of devoted on the event of the worldwide day in opposition to drug trafficking, instituted by the UN.
Calling traffickers “murderers” pushed by “the logic of energy and cash,” Argentine Jesuit Pope Francis additionally denounced “the harmful impression” of drug trafficking within the surroundings, particularly within the Amazon basin.
Confronted with this “scourge”, which “sows struggling and dying”, Pope Francis referred to as for benevolence in the direction of dependent folksinviting us to “act, to cease in conditions of fragility and ache, to “understanding methods to hearken to the cry of loneliness and anguish”.
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