During the election campaign, we have developed a series of proposals emulating the Amsterdam and Liverpool experience. They are: activating a sanitary policy which can support or integrate that of the repression of traffick. A proposal which is meant to be gradual and reformist. In practice: 1) transform the Sats, Nots, Gots or whatever the centers for the assistance of drug addicts are called, from bureaucratic offices of the state sanitary system into 24 hour centers equipped with mobile means capable of locating drug addicts in order to help them and offer them alternatives other than methadone. 2) distribute sterile needles and condoms, 3) distribute drugs at no cost under medical control, 4) allot funds for the creation of day hospitals and for home assistance for Aids sufferers, 5) create, where they are lacking, regional observation centers on drug addictions and Aids.
In other words a policy operating on the territory, based on information and assistance towards drug addicts, who are to be considered more like clients than patients. Is this possible in the context of the current laws? Yes, and in the new law as well, which contributes to safeguard the physician's professional secrecy. And the practical will of a region or of a mayor can induce much more flexible interpretations of the law. All this of course, if we part of the majority. If not, the antiprohibitionists elected would become a sort of civil counsel of the society, operating against the violence of the prohibitionist laws and the violences brought by the drug mafia, political corruption, etc. This thanks to the instruments that we are creating, such as, primarily, the Cora-Old, Observatory of the Laws on Drugs, which will evaluate the social costs of the laws in force or to be enforced in the near future.