SÃO PAULO – With Brazil’s Supreme Court and Congress at odds over the decriminalisation of marijuana possession, the same clash runs through the Church in the world’s largest Catholic country, with some urging a hard line and others insisting the last thing Brazil needs is a new “war on drugs”.
Lawyer Miguel Vidigal, who heads the Brazilian Union of Catholic Jurists, is among those adamantly opposed to calls for decriminalisation.
“Studies show that marijuana is the entrance door for other drugs. It cannot be decriminalised,” Vidigal told Crux. “Drugs are an evil in itself. They cause health, psychological, and spiritual damages.”
