{"id":11378,"date":"2016-06-16T18:23:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=11378"},"modified":"2017-09-21T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:10:31","slug":"millions-of-americans-turn-out-to-see-the-worldsmost-prominent-opponent-to-marijuana-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2016\/06\/millions-of-americans-turn-out-to-see-the-worldsmost-prominent-opponent-to-marijuana-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Americans Turn Out to See the World’sMost Prominent Opponent to Marijuana Legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/b>September 25, 2015 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Millions of Americans Turn Out to See the World’sMost Prominent Opponent to Marijuana Legalization-<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Pope Francis<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

A mid the headlines highlighting the Pope’s stances on an array of hot button political issues like climate change, immigration, poverty, the death penalty and capitalism, we would like to highlight one of his positions that is perhaps less well-known – \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAttempts, 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. \u00a0\u00a0<\/b>– Pope Francis\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In his address to the \u00a0International Drug Enforcement Conference in Rome held in June of 2014, \u00a0Pope Francis could not have been any clearer. He emphasized his opposition to legalization saying,“Let me state this in the clearest terms possible: the problem of drug use is not solved with drugs!”<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pope Francis says he opposes making recreational drugs legal<\/b><\/i><\/b><\/u><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pope says nope to dope – that is, legalized marijuana<\/b><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


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Pope Francis Condemns Legalization of Marijuana<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pope Francis condemns ‘evil’ marijuana<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pope condemns efforts to<\/b><\/i><\/a> <\/u><\/i><\/b>legalize marijuana<\/b><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Pope Francis Speaks Out Against Legalization of Marijuana and Other Drugs <\/b><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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About SAM<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), a nonpartisan, non-profit alliance of physicians, policy makers, prevention workers, treatment and recovery professionals, scientists, and other concerned citizens opposed to marijuana legalization who want health and scientific evidence to guide marijuana policies. SAM has affiliates\u00a0in 30 states.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: www.learnaboutsam.org<\/a>\u00a0 25th<\/sup> September 2015\u00a0Contact: Will Jones<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRESS RELEASE \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 September 25, 2015 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}