Decriminalize the sale and consumption of drugs is serious mistake

 
Some health care experts who deal with the issue of so-called hallucinogenic drugs have signed very clear position contrary to what some political leaders here and abroad have been advocating, that is, the complete liberalization of the sale and consumption of these products, on the grounds that their governments have failed to combat trafficking. Thus, argue such politicians, anyone who wants to use it, do it and should not have difficulty in acquiring the desired drug, as their trade would be legalized and the product sold openly in all the houses in the industry.

It's amazing how such a proposal has been filed and, even more amazing, has received wide coverage of the media!

Do the proponents of the idea have heard the parents dealing with children involved in drug addiction?

They know how the public health system, which can barely meet the children and the elderly sick lacking health insurance?

Clearly the answer to both questions is no.

The subject, however, not unnoticed by spiritists doctors who came of them was a public demonstration deserves - as happened with the unfortunate proposal - coverage of the media.

The incident occurred in Belo Horizonte on last June 25. Gathered in the capital of Minas Gerais, at the VIII Congress of the Spiritist Medical Association of Brazil - also known by the acronym Mednesp 2011 – spiritists doctors opposed to the decriminalization of marijuana use in Brazil, as well as against its legalization and marketing to non-therapeutic purposes.

The Letter of principles signed by our medical brethren that we spirits can only ratify and support, it was expressed as follows:

"Considering that the man is a being full of body, envelope, mind and spirit and that individual development is the acquisition of degrees of consciousness ever wider and higher, based on liberty of thought;

Whereas the exercise of free thinking makes man fully responsible for their actions before God and fellow human beings;

Whereas the Cannabis sativa (marijuana) promotes pathological change of consciousness, inhibiting the free exercise of thought and action, reason for the spirit;

Whereas the deleterious effects of psychoactive substances in spiritual bodies, as well as in the psyche, often leading to psychotic episodes;

Whereas the non-therapeutic use of psychoactive substances often stems from leakage of inner conflicts and educational evidence of the spirit;

Whereas such use prevents the educational process, aggravated circumstances prior to use and produce new grievances, family and social, perpetuating the cycle of addiction;

Whereas the use of psychoactive drugs potentiate obsessive complex processes with broad impact and difficult to treat;

Whereas the epidemiological data from national and international newsletters in which the use of licit psychoactive substances, prescribed or open access, such as tobacco and alcohol, constitute a major public health problems, according to the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization;

Whereas the legalization of marijuana would put it at the level of legal drugs, leading to a serious educational mistake, especially in relation to the age groups most vulnerable such as children and adolescents, use of a false security devoid of risk,

We, the spirit doctors, gathered in the city of Belo Horizonte (MG), VIII Congress of the Spiritist Medical Association of Brazil, Mednesp 2011, positioned ourselves totally opposed to the decriminalization of marijuana use in Brazil, as well as against its legalization and marketing with no therapeutic purpose.

We reaffirm, on the occasion, our commitment to life from conception to natural death, being against abortion, except when applied to save the mother from imminent death, and against the use of embryonic stem cells for use in research and therapies."

There is nothing to add to the letter above, except the wish that the same contempt for the legalization of marijuana extends to other drugs that have been made unhappy both young people and all people who live around them and share their suffering.