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"Mr President, like other colleagues, I too welcome the opportunity for this debate even though I would vehemently disagree with some of those who propose support for this resolution.
One of the most important areas we need to look at is how best we can create a society in which people are protected from the dangers presented to them. We do that by a series of moves, through legislation and other areas, to ensure that the common good and individual rights are protected. Some of those individual rights and common good goals mean that individual freedom of action and movement is diminished, but the purpose is not to restrict a person from doing something they want to do, but because it is for the greater good to ensure that person cannot do it.
As someone who has worked with young drug addicts and young alcoholics in the past, I know that nothing is more calculated to send out the wrong message than proposals calling for the legalisation of illegal substances. To do so denies the fact that they cause damage. It is ironic that at a time when the European Union and this Parliament are striving to diminish smoking because of its serious health consequences, in another area we are trying to allow people to freely damage their own health with drugs that have been proved to damage health and create other problems. There is a better way to enforce the law, to make it more equitable and to ensure that we can react to the concerns of the individual addicts who want to recover and get treatment. However, the way to do that is not by legalisation."@en1
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