Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-04-08-Speech-2-136"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-04-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Reform of the conventions on drugs2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030408.3.2-136"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-04-08-Speech-2-1372
lpv:speaker	lp:Ilka Schröder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (2001-09-28--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; parteilos (2000-09-01--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, two important assessments of government policies on narcotic drugs form the basis of my criticism of this report. Attempts by governments to suppress the use of certain drugs are as old as their failure. Against this, let me put to you the liberal idea, which certainly does not represent a particularly strong attack on the power of the state, that there are things which are simply no concern of government, such as the flavour of jam people like to eat, how many layers of clothing they wear in winter or which narcotic substance they like to smoke, sniff, drink or inject. Government efforts to regulate individual consumption, indeed, have serious consequences, for it is a fact that the 2 000 heroin users who die a wretched death each year in Germany alone are not destroyed by the drug itself but by the conditions in which the state compels them to use it. The report before us today scarcely touches on this point. A policy on narcotic drugs needs to be a humanist policy, which means for example that drugs should be assessed on the basis of their actual effects on the human body; in other words, impact should take precedence over legality. In practice, however, government policies on narcotic drugs have nothing to do with humanism but much to do with the creation of a governed nation and with the productivity of the national population. Any humanist – and let me say to my radical and less radical fellow Members that I have absolutely no intention of triggering a Marxist critique of the role of the state in this case – will agree that it is essential to reject any type of official policy on drugs."@en1

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