Visiting former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón remarked during an interview with the Grupo Corripio that “the fight against drug trafficking has failed.” The former judge was here to participate in the 12th Festival de Cine Global Dominicana where the documentary “The Code” was shown at the Palacio del Cine of Blue Mall.
Garzón advocated for the decriminalization of drug use, and the use as education as a weapon against vice. He said the super structure and billions invested to fight the scourge has not served to stop it. He estimated that but 20% of drugs are seized, but the rest reaches its destination.
“The superstructure of the anti-drug agencies is tremendous, and yet drug traffickers are still growing,” said Garzón, during his participation in the morning interview at the Listín Diario.
“You have to be brave and decriminalize some things,,” he said. He said it no longer makes sense that there are countries that still penalize the use of marijuana.
Garzón believes that there is no will to solve the problem of drug trafficking. “I think there is interest in maintaining this status quo because there are many people who feed on this system,” he said. He considered as alarming that 57,000 people in 2017, and 58,000 in 2018, died from opium consumption in the United States.
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Listin Diario
5 February 2019
