Colombia's new president, Gustavo Petro, wants to legalize cannabis. Not even a month has passed since he took office and the former guerrilla finally intends to legitimize activities that have always been related to the terrorist organizations that have destabilized his country for years.
The M-19, of which Petro was a member, has been accused of having links to drug trafficking. In 1974 this guerrilla group stole Bolivar's sword. The object was left in the hands of the family of the world's most famous drug trafficker. There is a photograph in which Pablo Escobar's son poses with her. It was finally returned by the terrorists in 1991, during the government of César Gaviria.
The left in the region is trying to impose an agenda that seeks to normalize drug use. These substances, which for so long have harmed and continue to harm so many lives, are the same ones that governments now want to legally market as if they were assets beneficial to society.
Today it is cannabis that Petro wants to legalize, but by that route he could continue to open a path from which there is probably no return, and through which the use of other addictive substances would end up being legalized. There are innumerable accusations that Colombia's irregular armed movements are involved with the cocaine traffickingto make this drug legal at this time would be a very blatant step on the part of the Petro administration, but no scenario can be ruled out when the dastardly left is in control. The most unusual plans and the most absurd things always occur to the communists.
The Latin American left specializes in destroying countries, changing constitutions at will and destroying people's morality by sowing hatred, class divisions and, more recently, legalizing drugs, among other actions that are contrary to the customs that historically defined Latin culture.
Colombia's future looks uncertain in the hands of a man who, instead of addressing the real problems in his country, is preoccupied with the fate of marijuana.
Colombia overcame many difficult episodes and had become the most stable country in the region; today it is covered in shadows with the arrival to power of a ruler who has Maduro's failed model as a reference.
Only time will tell what the future of Petro's Colombia will be. Let us hope that our Colombian brothers and sisters will not allow their country to be destroyed and plundered by the leftists who are now in power, and that they will not allow their country to be destroyed and plundered by the left that now governs. aims to give legal status to an addictive substance which often serves as a gateway for users to then want to experiment with the use of other harder drugs.
