Brazil Minister Proposes Legalization of Marijuana

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Brazil's Environment Minister Carlos Minc called on the country's Supreme Court to imitate Argentina and decriminalize possession of drugs by adults for personal consumption.

"We beat Argentina 3 to 1 in the World Cup qualifiers but in other issues we are loosing and bad. In Argentina judges decriminalized the use of marijuana", said Mind during a Sunday visit to the ecologic park Chapada dos Veadeiros in the central state of Goiás.

"This is a match we are losing with the Argentines," insisted the minister during an open day at the park which included musical shows.

Last August 25th the Argentine Supreme Court declared unconstitutional criminalizing adults in possession of a minimum quantity of marijuana for personal use and with no risk for third parties, thus giving preference to the right to privacy.

The Supreme Court ruling also called on the political establishment to agree on a state policy on drugs to combat the illicit trafficking of narcotics and adopt preventive health and educational measures.

The ruling however did not decriminalize the traffic or trading of drugs and the suppliers involved in the lead case of the five youngsters caught with marijuana - and later released - have been jailed.


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Written by Newsroom
Monday, 14 September 2009