Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-04-08-Speech-2-147"

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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	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030408.3.2-147"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-04-08-Speech-2-1482
lpv:speaker	lp:Proinsias De Rossa2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I wish to begin by thanking Mrs Buitenweg for this report and for her commonsensical approach to the issue she has had to deal with. We all know that the overwhelming majority of both petty and organised crime is drug-related. Europe's society cannot continue to tolerate that and to pursue policies that are clearly failing. If anybody imagines that our drug policies are working, then they are living in cloud-cuckoo-land. People are dying daily because they are caught up in a drug underworld which is making millions from their misery. I have visited housing estates where grandmothers are rearing grandchildren because the parents have died, not from an overdose of cannabis or even of heroin, but because they used dirty needles to inject themselves with heroin or took impure heroin. We cannot continue to allow our children to be destroyed in this way by the drug underworld. This morning in the Irish newspapers there was yet another report of a killing as a result of feuds between drug gangs – the fifth in Ireland alone in the last year. When was the last time a pharmacist shot another pharmacist to control the drugs market in his area? As the drugs market in his area is legal, there is no need for him to go chasing a share of the market illegally. We need to review the UN Conventions. A strong call should go from this Parliament tomorrow that the Conventions need to be reviewed and that we need to get serious about how we are handling the drug issue. We need to look in a serious way at the decriminalisation of cannabis, and to get serious about serious drugs."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; PETI (2002-01-23--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"De Rossa (PSE )."1

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