Oprovide convicted dealers with retraining in the event of legalization of cannabis. The proposal comes from LFI deputy Sébastien Delogu. In an interview broadcast on the Twitch channel of the Marseille current affairs show Where is the world going? the elected official suggested “that we give them the possibility of selling” this drug if it became supervised by the State.
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“If we ask for the legalization of cannabis and for the transport of cannabis to be well managed by the French state, we can ask questions about the people who have been penalized before, and that we give them the possibility of selling and to govern this. It somehow avoids locking them up and letting them go sell another drug,” he explained.
The chosen one of the 7e Bouches-du-Rhône constituency caused an outcry within the opposition following this suggestion. Sylvain Souvestre, mayor of 11e et 12e districts of Marseille, considered his comments “irresponsible”. “We cannot highlight people who have been convicted, who have broken the law, when all French men and women who get up early to work are respectful of common law,” he reacted to the microphone of BFMTV.
A “pro-drug delirium”
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau denounced a “pro-drug delirium” by La France insoumise. In a message published on in the neighborhood where he was dealing, he no longer has benefits and he is in prison.”
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This absurd proposal had already been made by Macronist deputies in a 2021 parliamentary report. This document recommended amnesting dealers convicted of “petty trafficking” and reintegrating them into legal sales to “reorient rigorous management skills, and particularly inventive, acquired in the illegal economy.
The reintegration of drug dealers is also under discussion in the state of New York in the United States, where cannabis is in the process of being legalized. Thus, it is expected that former imprisoned dealers will be favored to obtain the first cannabis seller licenses.
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