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He will still have to wait for the law that legalizes cannabis and equates its use with tobacco.

The PSOE, PP and Vox will cut off a bill presented by Más País and which is being debated today in the Congress of Deputies.

The position against the socialists is decisive in the vote because it will prevent the initiative from being processed despite the fact that it is a regulation supported by United We Can and its partners.

This blockade of the PSOE does not close the debate that has been opened in Spain by any means.

And it is that, the Congress constituted last week a subcommittee to study the medicinal use of cannabis.

It is precisely the existence of this parliamentary forum that the PSOE clings to today to justify its vote against, because it says that it prefers that all the discussion on the matter between the different parties and with the experts is centralized there.

The subcommission, which was approved in June and formed last week, was created with the aim of analyzing the use of cannabis for medical use. On the other hand, the proposed law of Más País, Íñigo Errejón's party, proposes a total legalization that will take this substance out of hiding and from the "black market." This initiative would allow people over 18 years of age to smoke in a recreational and legal way and that there would be specialized stores that would sell it.

As Errejón explained when he presented the bill three weeks ago, this legislation would imply a legalization that would turn cannabis into another economic sector, which would generate some 90,000 jobs and which, at the same time, would be an activity with an important capacity to collect taxes. .

Some 3,000 million studies cited by the leader of Más País.

The PSOE spokesman in Congress,

Héctor Gómez

, has argued that the subcommittee is the framework to debate the matter but has opened the door for a broader interpretation to be made to address the recreational use of cannabis and not only the medicinal one. or therapeutic.

In any case, he has indicated that from the PSOE they will not enter any "race" to look for headlines about who heads the initiative for a possible legalization of cannabis after there are three concrete proposals in this regard (Más País, Unidas Podemos and ERC ).

"We are not going to participate in this drift to see who arrives before," he said at a press conference, because, as he added, "it is about legislating well and with the greatest consensus" of the Chamber and listening to the health authority.

From United We Can, Pablo Echenique has been confident of being able to "convince" the PSOE in the future because there are "solid arguments" to move towards regulation in the mirror of some countries or states of the US.

The spokesperson for United Podemos has pointed out that Spanish society is "mature" and that the cannabis industry is "thriving" and can generate jobs and billions of return to the State via taxes.

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