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France: Koucher Opposes Drugs Law

Adam Sage

The Times

Thursday 13 Sep 2001

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FRANCE'S Socialist Health Minister, Bernard
Kouchner, has backed calls for the
decriminalisation of all drugs.

His comments have revived a debate among a
political class divided between Roman Catholic
conservatives and urban liberals and are
likely to embarrass Lionel Jospin, the Prime
Minister, who is far more cautious on the subject.

M Kouchner was speaking a week after the French
National Aids Council -- including scientists,
jurists and doctors -- said that French legislation
banning drug-taking gave rise to a "policy that
hesitates between treatment and repression and
constitutes a handicap to developing the strategy
of reducing Aids risks". M Kouchner has long shared
this view, but had not hitherto expressed it so
clearly while in his ministerial post.

 

 

 

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