Marijuana enters the Madrid Assembly: More Madrid defends its legalization and Ayuso attacks it

• Politics The regularization of medical cannabis comes to Congress again

The

has opened a new front of confrontation between Más Madrid and Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

The main opposition party in the Vallecas Assembly is going to defend this Thursday a Non-Law Proposal (PNL) on the regulation of marijuana consumption in general -not only for therapeutic purposes- to "combat the black market", "protect minors by hindering their access" and "guarantee public health by offering a product to adult users that meets all certified quality standards".

To the regional president, on the other hand, it seems that "the debate on

and of trying to "transfer values ​​to society and especially to young people who, on the contrary, are depressing them and isolating them from the causes noble and true.

“The issue of drugs cannot be frivolized and although it is not popular, I plan to fight against it,” she assured yesterday in an interview on Telecinco.

In the text of its initiative, Más Madrid argues

in limiting illegal supply and consumption" because "prohibitionism is not capable of presenting a single positive indicator."

In addition, he maintains that the regulation must be done both for reasons of public health and "defense of freedoms": "An adult person has to stop being criminalized and discriminated against if they decide to be a cannabis user."

Among the supposed advantages of legalization, Mónica García's party points out that it represents "an opportunity to generate employment and increase public income" and cites a study by the Autonomous University of Barcelona that indicates that

could be created throughout Spain and generate a tax collection of

per year, "to which we should add the savings in police and judicial costs."

"But the economic impact goes beyond direct sales (...), from the creation of university degrees, research, professional training, fairs, rural tourism, treatments and even a possible export," they point out.

Likewise, Más Madrid considers that legalization can be “an opportunity to

.

It also considers that for the measure to be "effective and fair" it has to be "comprehensive" because if it is only allowed to plant cannabis seeds for personal consumption, "users who cannot access that way will have to continue accessing through the black market. », which is why it urges that its commercialization be authorized in social clubs, licensed access points and pharmacies.

rejection in Congress

The PNL, in any case, basically what it does is

in the Assembly, since in its own text the regional government is urged to require the central government to carry out the regulation because it is the one with the powers.

In the regional sphere, what is required is the preparation of a study on the economic, socio-sanitary and criminological impact that the regulation of cannabis would have in Madrid.

Congress already rejected in October 2021 a bill presented by Más País for the legalization of cannabis and its

.

PSOE joined the PP and Vox to prevent the processing of a regulation also promoted by United We Can and its parliamentary partners.

"I am

and transferring them to society, and of course, to young people who are not so harmful," said Ayuso on Wednesday.

“Ask the drug mothers, ask so many generations in the 80s and 90s, when they once again frivolized drugs and what consequences it has had,” he added.

According to the leader of the PP, "one of the main engines of crime" are narcotic substances, which she defined as

and projects, to cause dementia, very severe mental illness, schizophrenia and depression."

And she added: "You can't tell people that drugs don't matter, that they come, that they are joints, come on, that the carcas are already there."

In the Spanish Observatory of Medicinal Cannabis they appreciate "the gesture" of Más Madrid, but consider that "it is not appropriate" now that a subcommittee is working in Congress to regulate its therapeutic use.

"The only thing that is done like this is to

when it has taken us seven years to get here," says its president, Carola Pérez.

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