Gérard Collomb: cannabis to be punishable by fines «within 3-4 months»
Gérard Collomb, Emmanuel Macron's Minister of the Interior, was this morning's guest on Bourdin Direct on RMC. In the course of the interview, which focused mainly on security and terrorism issues, Jean-Jacques Bourdin took a crack at the subject of cannabis, and in particular drug trafficking, pointing out the proximity of certain trafficking networks to terrorist networks.
Bourdin then reminds us that Emmanuel Macron is proposing a fines for users. The rest of the exchange is surprising, to say the least:
»Collomb _ It's true what you say, but what we're seeing more and more is that there's a very strong link between drug trafficking, and other forms of trafficking, and terrorism at the same time. What Emmanuel Macron is saying is twofold: the first is that we can indeed issue a ticket right away, because the problem today is that someone is arrested for trafficking in ’sup", and nothing happens, but two days later he comes back to his neighborhood and does exactly the same thing.
Bourdin _ So a ticket right away?
C _ Ticket right away. Either he pays...
B _ When will it be...?
C _ I think we'll have that in place within the next 3-4 months. The second thing is to keep people away from the neighborhood, i.e. to forbid them to return to their neighborhood, so that they don't come and taunt the victim who has filed a complaint and finds that it's null and void.»
Has Gérard Collomb just equated users with traffickers? Allow me to ask. According to him, the contraventionnalisation would only concern drug dealers? Or are all users drug dealers? Are sick people who treat themselves with cannabis users, and therefore drug dealers?
And if we want to prevent companies from being financed by mafia networks, will making them pay fines be enough? The same question applies to ticketing users?
Our new Minister of the Interior doesn't seem to have a firm grasp of the subject, but he has announced that the contraventionnalisation will be implemented within 3-4 months. Is the worst to come?
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Zwizzør
May 25, 2017 at 12 h 17 min
If they introduce direct ticketing, it could open the door to the depenalization of small quantities. No more having a record for 3gr on you. Fingers crossed...
Rémi Leroy
May 25, 2017 at 20 h 20 min
If we're denied access to the most miraculous of medicinal plants, it's to better sell us drugs. In the very recent Servier affair, Macron received bribes from the pharmaceutical lobby in «unprecedented» proportions. In a country where we go to prison for taking healthy care of ourselves with a natural plant, where is freedom? It's not our health that's being controlled, but our freedoms and our minds. Pharmaceutical sales would collapse if this were legalized. In 5 years, France will be the laughing stock of the world with its prohibition...
jagla
May 28, 2017 at 12 h 01 min
This new Minister of the Interior is totally incompetent to deal with a subject about which he has no accurate idea. The interests of the drug merchants are preserved, and the authority of the state will reassure ignorant parents and the supremacy of alcoholics associated with them. This five-year term is likely to prove the worst of the last 3, given the lightness of our new leaders when it comes to social issues.