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Russia Will Not Legalize Drugs

Prensa Latina

Tuesday 25 Jul 2006

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Moscow, Jul 6 (Prensa Latina) In a two-hour virtual conference on the
internet with thousands of national and international participants,
Russia´s President Vladimir Putin refuted a drive to legalize "soft
drugs" like marihuana.

In the conference on 49 economic, military and other domestic topics,
Putin emphasized that Moscow backs international agreements banning
official drug sales.

Such legalization in other countries helped reduce the consumption of
"hard drugs" like heroin, but did increase consumption of soft drugs
among youth, added Putin.

He said drug addiction in Russia jumped 15-fold from the late 80s and in
2000 was over six million between regular and intermittent consumers.

The conference also touched on economic issues such as the war with
Ukraine over gas sales to Europe, new defense legislation, and measures
to fight corruption and bribes to avoid military service (obligatory in
Russia).
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