The Madrid Assembly rejects the proposal of Más Madrid to legalize marijuana

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

The word "joint" has been one of the most repeated by the deputies of the Madrid Assembly during the plenary session this Thursday.

Its unexpected prominence in the vocabulary of your honors has been due to the proposal that Más Madrid has taken to the Parliament of Vallecas to legalize the sale of marijuana -despite the fact that the regional government does not have the power to do so- and that it has only obtained the support of United We Can.

Both PP and Vox have voted against it because, unlike Mónica García's group, they consider that regularization

.

The PSOE has underpinned the rejection of the measure, but in its case due to the "nonsense" of proposing an initiative for the Executive of Isabel Díaz Ayuso to demand from La Moncloa the elaboration of a legal framework that had already been rejected in the Congress last October.

Más Madrid argues that the legalization of marijuana in all its aspects, not only therapeutic, would serve to "better protect minors", "guarantee public health and the freedoms of adults" and to "reduce the black market".

Also that it is "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.

year, "to which should be added the savings in police and judicial costs".

«You who repeat so much that no one has to tell people what to do and what to consume are those who are in favor of fining people for carrying cannabis and getting into the house of a citizen for having a plant on his terrace”, argued the deputy

in reference to the Government of Ayuso.

"Regular is ordering a reality: it is neither prohibited when we talk about pastries nor is it encouraged when we talk about cannabis, be a little consistent," he added.

From the ranks of the

, the parliamentarian

, who is also a doctor by profession, has responded that marijuana is "a highly toxic and addictive drug that produces serious consequences on the nervous system": "In Spain, the consumption of tobacco and alcohol in minors.

Do we believe that minors in this country do not smoke tobacco or drink alcohol?

At the time when cannabis was legalized on our streets and only accessible to adults, it would obviously greatly facilitate minors' access to this drug.

Vox

censures that, according to its interpretation of the More Madrid proposal, "young people have to smoke more joints because that way we could raise more funds to invest in public health and mental health."

Returning to the star word of the session, deputy

added that "smoking a lot of joints is going to be the remedy for the economic crisis" because García's group argues that it would serve to "generate employment, increase public income, the creation of university degrees and even export in the future».

Finally,

, from

ironically urge his "friend" Alberto Garzón to speak out on the matter: "Knowing you [referring to the PP], with what you did when you talked about preventing the consumption of meat red, which is not to prohibit it, or to reduce alcohol consumption, I am sure that the Ministry of Consumption comes out saying something about this and they do a campaign on Twitter all of you smoking a joint ».

“I am not going to tell young people to smoke two joints, that someone is going to give them a payment and the approval, because that misery I refuse to be in the Community of Madrid”,

had previously assured during one of his interventions criticizing in passing the social and educational policy of the central government.

“All drugs are an attack on health.

And I will give that battle where it is necessary », he riveted.

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