Brussels, (Brussels Morning)- In an interview with the Dutch newspaper NRC, Brussels mayor Philippe Close (PS) reiterated his plea to depenalize the use of cannabis – as a first step towards legalisation. “People who use drugs are seen as failures. I say let’s help them.”
The statements made by Mayor of Brussels Philippe Close last week are also reverberating abroad. In a page-long interview with the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, he once again clarifies his views on a problem to which we in Belgium still too often “close our eyes”, instead of working preventively and constructively with a ‘national drug plan’, as he did.
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