Mexico City, Mexico, Nov 17, 2003 / 22:00 pm
A noted pro-family group has joined efforts with the Mexican bishops in urging the rejection of a proposal to legalize the use of drugs in the country’s prisons in order to “diminish” drug-trafficking.
During the 86th National Congress of the National Parents Union on life, family and education, Guillermo Bustamante, president of the pro-family group, warned that the proposal is senseless. “How many times have we learned that drug use has preceded the commission of a crime,” he said.
Bustamante said that “if drugs are legalized, crime Hill increase, security will be diminished, child prostitution will rise—and which parent is going to accept that next to the candy stand marijuana is being sold.”
For his part Bishop Jesús Martínez Zepeda, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico City, explained that despite the fact that authorities see the legalization as a way to solve drug-trafficking in prisons, it cannot be approved without considering the long-term risks it would bring to the public.