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No one questions the importance of the enormous, often successful work carried out by civil organisations to help people who have become dependent on drugs. We need to gather together all the forces for good in the battle against harmful, addictive substances. It was therefore gratifying to see a report which highlights the initiatives being carried out in Europe.
The reason why I abstained from voting today thus has nothing to do with the actual subject of the report. Instead the reason can be read under the heading ‘Civil society – the external dimension’. Some time ago, an agonising decision, I have to admit, I voted in favour of a report which supported facilitating a switch to legal poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, with production being used in pain-relieving drugs. One of the reasons for this was the number of reports which had appeared on the negative consequences of spraying the existing crops using planes and the desperate situation of the Afghan people. The report encourages both separate cultivation and spraying, which is inconsistent. The report also grants support to organisations in Europe working to produce substances derived from coca leaves, for example, for therapeutic or other ‘lawful use’. I am strongly against this. As the main intention of the report is nevertheless good, I finally chose to abstain."@en1
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