discuss marijuana is exciting
intense and people say and what for
we will achieve yes yes if we legalize the
marijuana if we also regulate that before
to get to that we’re going to see what’s
for already apply it first you have to
say what to prohibit is to say what
there is the first thing that must
justify and for what has served us
prohibition
There are those who say to me it seems like a
dystopia a world without drugs not because
The humanity
was born with drugs and humanity
try to finish with drugs and a
lot of legal drugs that are sold and
it is a tremendous hypocrisy to deny it is
a drug all substance that stimulates
our nervous system or not
there is that depressing it there are
many many are legal
few are illegal if you ask
if a medical panel to determine it in
the one which they were going to prohibit and
persecute not vote
many are prejudices or many are
capricious these are these forecasts
but well I wonder if we know
public policies as disastrous as
the prohibition that has generated the
prohibition we have not stopped having more
production plus distribution and more
drug use and we can see it in the
National Survey of Addictions 2008
said the un that all the
coca poppy illegals
and marijuana and it arrived in 2008 and there was
more of your crops than when you
they proposed to remove them and then if not
we get the objectives because the
we even keep the consequences
wanted a spiral of violence
impresses in 2007 first year after
that the war against the
drugs rather he was already leading the war
against drugs that we say that
climbed what is called the war of
Calderón had less than 9,000 dead
Intentional murders for 100,000
inhabitants came to or this year 2017 it was
even worse than the worst year of Calderón
in 2011 we almost have 30,000 dead is
say
tripled and copeteado so that it is
very consistent with the sexenio that
we live not because there was continuity
the only thing they did was simply
want to go from the front to
the interior plants
So what is the use now?
we have a weaker state
we have copted cops we have
obviously the infiltration of the narco in
the politics I do not challenge to any
forecast until you tell me a single
general benefit
I ‘m not talking about particular benefits
because if someone has benefited
particularly and are the criminals
for their tremendous resources they can put together
private armies can corrupt the
state can infiltrate what can
take charge even of
territories and obviously charge right
from floor to extort kidnap
etcetera to devote to the silver of
people and many other things because
because they can be used because they are in
the most profitable business in the world
most profitable illegal business in the world
what have you served us
then also the war is harmful to
human rights in all
resolutions about mexico we hear
three things and inevitably torture
widespread forced disappearance and
extrajudicial execution
that is our reality not and in addition to
all because we have figures of our own
civil war
200,000 deaths in these years that have
state we have more missing than
all that all that all those who
there was in the Argentine dictatorship 30,000
about 22,000 that there was that by the way
Mendes just died for this one and
I think he did not pay all his crimes in
argentina but good more missing
We are talking about internally displaced by the
violence of more than a million and a half
only the last six years and our
full prisons and many of them from
women who are women
abandoned that are that simply
they were null
and how it happens in the United States that have
a fifth of the world’s population
carl imprisoned or let’s say those who
they are in prison in the United States
the war on drugs also in
mexico those that are are the poorest
in the united states are the
African Americans and Latinos especially
here too
are the poorest this is also ha
there was a placist punishment on the
war on drugs and then by
what do we keep it if there are some
economic interests but basically
they are moral prejudices because to talk to
good conscience generates votes
fill the polls in some way and
they bet on that despite the fact that the country
let us go between the legs forgiveness or that
this one or that thousands of lives go on in
this recently we talked about the bonus
demographic young people who are going to
integrate the productive apparatus that we
they would bring the much of the so
yearned for economic growth because no
we have had that economic growth
of up to our young people are dead
disappeared or persecuted by this
stupidity that is called war against
drugs I’m sure that because it
I would agree that entered the
war on drugs as a
special chapter of history
universal of infamy because the
drugs was the war is never
destined to fail because it is a
war against the human condition
I insist nobody absolutely nobody lives
without drugs even the wet ones that do
pope pope and in this our organism
generates drugs such as endorphins
they spoke here when I was in love
it also generates that it generates of course
substance and it makes us do things that
maybe we would not do if we were in
hotels if we were in our
full of his five senses because
effectively that makes love too
I do not understand that parents
he does not want his children to use drugs
of course not and that they can persuade
their children but if their children do not make them
case and who does not get to disobey their
parents I plead guilty not me
I’m sure nobody wants their
children are killed in media in the
violence disappeared prisoners or
extorted and drugs and none is
safe and all have a risk a
danger but the prohibition makes them
much more dangerous and much more
risky
a chilling fact for the first time in
decades under the life expectancy of
Mexican men in the inei and in the
census and in turn is due to violence
because more dangerous than any
biochemical substance
is lead bullet shaped that’s
what we are suffering
but good or if you regulate the
marijuana four risks would stop
run our young and that explains
parents
first they would not have contact with the
delicuencia that can be brutal very
violent
second they would not risk being
extorted or end up in prison
third that they would not have risk of
consume more toxic substances in the
case of marijuana pesticides in
the case of cocaine that I tell them what
that what he is put to adulterate her
and fourth would not have contact with drugs
tougher
it is absolutely false that marijuana
lead to use harder drugs there is no
nothing in the biochemical substance that I know
that has no form let’s say
no relation to another drug like
existing in the cocaine the campin and the
alcohol because it lowers the effects
of alcoholism from drunkenness
let’s say no but they do share the same
black market and then who is going with
mariguana then goes with the dealer and the
leader not only sells cannabis sells other
things on the menu and obviously try then
to do your business
then those four things would leave
would lower the risk is to reduce damages in
a public policy
but also because I think this is
inevitable and necessary first because
we said failure the prohibition did not we
It serves and if we do the same we will not
have different results
second because it’s a right and to the tail
supreme court the first room determined
which is a right of adults to be able
consume marijuana and have a way
lawful to acquire it
what happens is that it is only valid
He stopped her for four people but
the criteria and what they should do
power what should be the power
legislation is to ensure that all
Mexicans could fully exercise
your rights and this one also the right
to the free development of personality
do as you want to be according to
my tastes my desires my interests
etc
that is the point that also says
low-cut inside my skin I command
the prohibition has has an origin
Puritan is outlawing pleasure and
I want to claim pleasure always
and when it does not affect to do
zeros while it is a thousand semi system
nervous as I always liked clear
will have to see how I have the information
to reduce the damage to assist me in
If the nations have a problem
united say that only 10 percent
of users of all drugs are
problematic
the other 90 percent up dads
that do not carry a side sign on the
street saying I’m consumer then we
we realize that they become president
from the United States for example
remember that bill clinton said smoke
but do not aspire george bush said the most
soft that I got was marijuana but
then the holy spirit came and he
redeemed are the worst
obama said then look chih i did it
to study to relax zp him
I would tell my daughters that it’s not a good idea
that you consume it but it would not be worse if
consume alcohol or tobacco no that’s more
or less good and then we found out that
it’s michel phelps the olympic glory
all times if someone tells me that
he did not win the medals he won thanks to
the marijuana is right but the
marijuana did not prevent or
steve jobs founded apple thanks to the
drugs that he consumed because of the drugs
they prevented me from doing it it causes me great
etc
do not put things in the
proportions and I thought and let’s think if
we value people for what they do
and not for what they consume and third for
our reality no longer everyone is
loading these prejudices and states
united imposed us the regulates the
prohibition of marijuana in those 40
he called it we had decriminalized for the
drug
they told us yes that if we do not
back that legislation do not let us
to sell medicines and so on
we reverse that by the end of
government of Lázaro cárdenas good
they left us hanging on the brush
Puritan
now the united states are already thirty 30
states coming soon that has the
medical marijuana a little more the
industrial marijuana and ten entities already
marijuana for all-purpose or recreational
among them california
well california was calculating that
will have seven billion dollars
in 2020
well they said that it is your last one is that
is conservative and they talk about up to 12
billion that could be there are 250
thousand formal and permanent jobs by
marijuana does not
and taxes that I tell you have not been a
great success to build schools
hospitals and so on
that’s what there is only elevated in
the latter in the first six months
of its regulation 30 million dollars
in taxes that are going to go up
because they are going from the medical standard
to the standard let’s say ludic oe co personal
who pays more taxes
that is also Canada will already be a
country as well as Uruguay that regulates the
marijuana for all uses from the
first of July and we already generate
an industry generate jobs have
taxes are saved the expense they use
to chase people do not have
full they are already seeing how they no longer fill
the jails of poor people to for
this in this to not have this crisis
humanitarian and we follow each other in
war
we keep spending on arming
we are militarizing the country with the law
of internal security and other things by
this war that can not be won that is
failed I do not know what else has to happen
to realize that this is not
working and while in the county
Colorado people are sinning every
year 600 education students
superior to go and prepare
I think it is a policy more
smart prevention
here in mexico up in the university
national violence is terrible and
inadmissible and the solution is not
militarize the university city and the
solution is to put armed police shoá
university that space is free is
free for society and put on roadblocks
there I find it creepy
the solution is to change policy and
stop persecuting young people where
they consume college drugs in
all the world
what you have to do is inform them and
blocks because look at the correct
prevention is not that someone says no
it’s done because I can not because it’s always
will be able to correct prevention is that
Someone say do not use because I do not want
I’m not even going to do it that way
responsible because I know that what I
I’m getting in, I know what your
proposals and what can happen to me and I know
how to reduce the damage and in that we have
to work on preventing
reduce the damage in attending to
problematic users to that 10 by
hundred that needs it and of course
talk about regulation and marijuana
indeed it is not the end of the road
but it can be an indispensable step
to fix this problem is going to
magically fix the problem of
insecurity and violence but it is not
Necessary condition but not enough
we will have to do many things to be other
policemen but what is it that we finish
already with this absurdity with this unreason
which is called war on drugs
that has been terrible not only for mexico
but for humanity
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