Marijuana legalization:
it is foolish
It has returned to the agenda of debates in Brazil the issue of marijuana legalization. The matter has come to the Senate via e-Citizenship Program and it is under discussion in the Human Rights Commission of the Senate (CDH).
One of the proposals presented there want pot to be legalized as it is with alcohol and cigarettes. The law - the proposal sets - should allow the cultivation at home, the record of clubs that people cultivate, licensing of establishments cultivation and sale of marijuana in the wholesale and retail and regulate its medical use.
What is the purpose of such a proposal? Who benefits from it?
According to its proponents, the main reason for the legalization of marijuana would combat drug trafficking, which would result in the reduction of crime.
The thesis is superficial and naive, since drug trafficking is not limited to marijuana, and therefore does not cease with it exclusion from the world of illegality. Still remain for those who are enriched with trafficking and other prohibited substances of great appeal in our country, such as cocaine and crack.
The Human Rights Commission of the Senate cannot, in such a discussion, stop listening to experts in the health field. Psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and other therapists who work in the addiction certainly have much to say about the dangers of the proposed legalization.
To the psychiatrist Valentim Gentil Filho, in an article published in National Geographic magazine, September 2014, "there is no way to justify the legalization of drug use such as marijuana, hashish, skunk and pure THC, not even for medicinal purposes." "They are highly dangerous and toxic ingredients that put people's health at risk," said the doctor.
The frequent use of marijuana causes physical and mental changes, beside generates cognitive, volitional, intellectual, personality and overall health losses, especially in adolescent, since the human brain development ends around age 21.
On June 25th, 2011, meeting in Belo Horizonte (MG), during the VIII Congress of Medical Spiritist Association of Brazil, spiritist medical positioned themselves against the decriminalization of marijuana and against its legalization and commercialization with no therapeutic purpose, basing it on scientific grounds, as reported by this magazine in the editorial of the issue 218. Here is the link: http://www.oconsolador.com.br/ano5/218/editorial.html
The following year, a report published by VEJA magazine in its issue of October 31st, 2012, based in impressive numbers and testimonials from scientists and experts in the field, confirmed the understanding of spiritist doctors and sprayed the known and old argument of the proponents of the use of marijuana, according to which the drug would be less harmful than tobacco. The editorial issue 287 from this magazine transcribed and commented on the data published by VEJA. Here's the link: http://www.oconsolador.com.br/ano6/287/editorial.html
We regret, therefore, that the issue has reached the discussion at the Senate, while we hope that it does not prosper, for the sake of the Brazilian family and especially our youth.
