Rada deputies were urged to legalize marijuana using a rug with nails
At the entrance to the building of the committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, a rally was held in support of bill No. 4553, which provides for the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this from Kyiv.
On this day, a meeting of the Conciliation Council of Parliament was held, and activists demanded that the bill be included in the agenda of the session.
According to them, the main argument in favor of legalizing cannabis for medical purposes is that drugs based on this substance are used to relieve pain in a number of diseases.
Therefore, a symbolic sign “Carpet of Pain” was placed under the door of the Verkhovna Rada committee building.
According to the organizers of the action, if deputies walk on a rug with nails, they will understand how patients who need medical cannabis feel.
Patients who needed treatment for pain syndrome, their relatives and the authors of the bill spoke to journalists. Thus, the lobbyists for the legalization of cannabis simply used sick people for their own purposes.
One of the authors, deputy from Golos Olga Stefanishina, answering questions from journalists, said that she does not see the risk of narcotization of society due to the legalization of marijuana.
“We are only talking about medical cannabis. It is not addictive. These are medicines that are registered in the form of oils, sometimes tablets, to relieve pain,” the deputy said.
She did not answer the journalist’s question about which foreign producers might be interested in importing cannabis to Ukraine, as provided for in her bill.
“Our bill also provides for the possibility of producing drugs on the territory of Ukraine,” the politician noted.
According to her, no one sponsors the bill and its initiators.
“Nobody sponsors me. I am a people’s deputy, I receive a salary,” she said.
She didn't like the question.
“I'm sorry, do you have any goal? Are you trying to suggest some... thoughts?” she asked in response.
The deputy also could not answer the question of how exactly the legalization of cannabis will make society more open.
"Don't know. You don’t understand what you’re asking,” Stefanishina said.
Thus, according to the author of the bill, she is not aware of the activities of the Soros Open Society Foundation, which promotes the legalization of cannabis in different countries.
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