12 thousand people concentrated themselves yesterday in the forests of Palermo to demand the legalization of the drug possession for personal use. penal punishment to the drug user generates a circuit of criminalization that does not facilitate the prevention and, on the contrary, is a source of social, familiar and labor exclusion of the affected ones, lawyer Silvia Inchaurraga said to Página/12, president of the Association of Reduction of Damages of Argentina (SHE BURNS), one of the convoking organizations of the encounter. The demonstration was within the framework made of the Million March Marijuana, that was carried out in 225 cities worldwide, in demand of the legalization of the cannabis.
?Cura, nonwar, it was the slogan that nucleó to the young people in Sarmiento and Figueroa Alcorta, next to the Rosedal. There, from the 16 and until the 20, a concert of rock with the presence of the groups Suburban Resistance, Intoxicated, the Hands of Filippi and Brothers Farm was carried out, among others. In the scene adhesions of the Coordinator against the Police and Institutional Repression were ***reflxed mng (Correpi), of Centers of Students and the Latin American Network by the Reduction of Damage, among others.
?Nuestro reclamation is protected in article 19 of the National Constitution, that protects the private actions of the men and it excludes them from the authority of the magistrates, Inchaurraga to this newspaper explained. For the convoking ones, one is a problem of respect to the human rights and the individual rights, whose subjugation?dicen? he is more harmful than the same drug overdose. the criminalization of the consumption?afirma Inchaurraga? it is labeled to the drug user like delinquent, with the possibility of going imprisoned and the consequent social, familiar and labor exclusion?
It is not generated thus, it says the specialist, the necessary frame for the prevention of the overdoses nor of I infect of the VIH through injectable drugs. consequence of the penalty, the drug users is more and more far from the health system, with the exception of the programs of damage reduction that propose: podés not to let consume, cuidate of the overdoses or I at least infect of diseases like the hepatitis and the VIH, it explained. The drug possession for personal consumption is not penalized in Uruguay, Bolivia and Colombia, and in many countries of Europe.
The moved one of in Palermo was yesterday preceded by a march made Saturday in the city of Rosary. Both movements comprise of an action program that includes the dialogue with legislators and the work with people who have had problems with the law. In addition to the derogation of article 14 of the law 23,737, that penalizes the possession, the demonstrators demanded the aim of the arrests by marijuana consumption and they were pronounced in favor of the investigation on therapeutic uses of the cannabis.