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Rosalinda Morales .- The director of the Center for Youth Integration Xalapa, Sergio Mayoral Barranca, it is unwise to consider legalizing drugs, because 70 percent of consumers in Veracruz are young and make them more easily available would have to legalize to permit minors to use them.

He said that legalizing drugs, marijuana, which is the most consumed by young people, would become accessible to minors who have not yet tested. “And given the rate of drug abuse, prevention is better now find it difficult to find because it’s illegal sale, when legalized, will be on hand for all, legalize it and allow the children to consume.”

The director of the Center for Youth Integration, Sergio Mayoral Barranca, reported that the drug most used by young people in Veracruz, marijuana, amphetamines are not preferred by the Veracruz, so rank fifth in the scale of consumption. At the center reach 30 young new every month, and attend an average of 55 boys.

Of those who enter detoxification clinics, leaving 55 percent rehabilitated, the remaining 45 are not rehabilitated, or falls out immediately.

The head of Linking Crime Prevention Division of the Department of Prevention and Social Readapación, Paola Santiago Fernandez spoke of the prevention programs that are made within the criminal Veracruz said he conducted an arduous campaign of crime prevention, and first in addictions, to avoid carrying drugs to commit acts of those who afterwards repent. This campaign is present in all state prisons. Read the rest of this entry »