2023-06-13 15:22:45
It all started with a tweet. In January, the mayor of Bègles, a commune in the Bordeaux metropolis, Clément Rossignol-Puech (Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, EELV), discovers the latest report from the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE). Entitled “Cannabis: getting out of the status quo, towards supervised legalization”, it looks favorably on the question of legalization, and immediately makes the Béglais councilor react. “I had a knee-jerk reaction. I said to myself, another relevant national report that will be used to wedge a cupboard! While we mayors are faced with the trafficking of narcotics – and mainly cannabis, and it is getting worse and worse”, he explains.
So, Clément Rossignol-Puech tweets. He announces proposing to Emmanuel Macron to make his commune “the first experimental territory for the cultivation, sale and supervised consumption of recreational cannabis”. Immediately, this tweet takes on media coverage. And the project is launched. “It came out like thishe explains. I knew the subject, but I had not worked on the question of local experimentation. I discussed it with my team, who are united and convinced. »
So he writes to Emmanuel Macron to formalize his request. “The idea is not to create a media buzzdefends the mayor of Bègles, but to advance the reflection and to go as far as experimentation, because I think that is a way of getting out of the rut in which we find ourselves, in terms of legislation, use and management of cannabis in France. » For Clément Rossignol-Puech, “it will move the lines, I’m sure, because the subject is ripe, and to get out of the caricature of the all-repressive that we currently know”.
Collective experimentation
Since January, he has continued to analyze the subject, noting for example that the market for this narcotic represents between 2 billion and 4 billion euros. “in the hands of parallel traffic”, for 1 million very regular, if not daily, consumers. According to the elected official, the objective of this experiment is to move towards supervised legalization, and not towards prohibition. “We have practically the most repressive legislation in Europe and the largest number of consumers in Europe, and we continue to get bogged down in repression. Eighty percent of public funding is for repression, 20% for prevention, we can see that it does not work”deplores the elected environmentalist.
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