Good grief. Nothing like news that's been filtered two or three
times.
Here it is more in context: [took a bit of searching]
If you can use 5th grade Inference skills, he's primarily
talking about NARCOTICS and inferring about the use of Methadone
to treat NARCOTIC addiction.
Marijuana is not a narcotic. In the USA we're very specific to
refer to recreational drugs as meaning pot-only. Also, he was
speaking to the Roman equivalent of the DEA.
Let's imagine if he specifically stated, "Except for the poor
little pot plant - that's fine" and kept the rest the same, or
was specific about referring to methodone and heroine/opium,
which are the primary narcotic addictions that seem to be a
problem in the drug trafficking trade... would you still have a
problem with what he said?
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*Let me state this in the clearest terms possible: the problem
of drug use is not solved with drugs! Drug addiction is an evil,
and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise,* Francis
said.
*To think that harm can be reduced by permitting drug addicts to
use narcotics in no way resolves the problem. Attempts, however
limited, to legalize so-called *recreational drugs* are not only
highly questionable from a legislative standpoint, but they fail
to produce the desired effects.*
The pope said drug use was fed by a *deplorable* international
commerce that put the lives of adolescents and young people in
danger. *Faced with this reality, I can only manifest my grief
and concern,* he said. === I'm not saying that the Pope is "for
pot" or "against pot". But going by all the context, it sounds
like he's talking about the heroin/opium trade, which is a HUGE
problem and can leave people destitute.
