To You as a Member of the EU Parliament

VOTE NO (underlined) TO THE PROPOSAL OF HEDI D'ANCONA

The proposal suggest that "soft drug" should be legalised. "Hard drugs" should be available on prescription. It also envisages a change of the UN drug conventions.

The National Association for a Drug-Free Society, RNS, The Stockholm Section, strongly objects against such a policy, hostile to the well-being of youth and children and showing a complete lack of understanding for the situation of the families who bear the burdens of drug abuse.

The consequences of such a proposal will lead to a widespread passivity of European youth, who will then neither be able to take advantage of their democratic rights nor to fulfil their obligations.

We do not accept the terminological distinction between "soft" and "hard" drugs! All drugs are dangerous and dependenceproducing. Marijuana and psychotropic drugs are much stronger today than they were in the 1970's and therefore much more dangerous. To legitimise marijuana by listing it as "medicine" is, until today, against all scientific evidence. The abuse of marijuana has already had serious consequences to the public health of Europe.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990) says that we "shall take all appropriate measures, including legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect children from illicit use of narcotic drugs (article 33).

TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY

BE SURE THAT YOU ARE PRESENT TO VOTE NO (underlined) for the sake of the youth and their families! For a Drug-free Europe where people should be able to travel freely without running the risk of being exposed to legal drugs!

A successful restrictive drug control policy can only be achieved through prevention, early intervention, treatment programs, including work and housing.

Stockholm 1997-12-14

Gun Nordin, chairman