SaS MP Martin Poliacik Confesses to Experimenting with Hard Drugs

Date: 28.08.2012 11:56 Author: DOMR Urgency: 4 Category: EN: Miscellaneous - mis

SaS MP Martin Poliacik Confesses to Experimenting with Hard Drugs





Bratislava, August 28 (TASR) - Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party MP Martin Poliacik in an interview for SME daily on Thursday said that even though he has tried heroin and pervitin (methamphetamine), he condemns taking hard drugs.

"I was a teenage rebel ... and I have come across drugs, of course. I'm not saying that I'm proud of it, though, but I take it as part of my coming of age," said Poliacik, who added that he knew several people who took drugs with serious consequences. This gave him the urge to try out first hand what made them do it.

"So, I once tried pervitin and heroin. I didn't like it, but thanks to this, I came to know why they [drugs] can be so appealing...," he explained.

Poliacik emphasised that he denounces taking hard drugs such as pervitin and heroin, even more so in the form in which they are distributed in Slovakia - often diluted in all kinds of solutions - making them even more dangerous.

The MP also pointed out that society, including the state authorities, has always taken up a negative stance towards those taking and distributing drugs, while doing little in terms of education and prevention, which has resulted in the present situation in which the number of those who take drugs has been increasing and prisons are overcrowded.

[Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) was campaigning for the decriminalisation of marijuana in Slovakia for medical purposes, but toned down its efforts after the parliamentary elections in 2010 as a sop to other members of the newly established governing coalition of Iveta Radicova. It has recently begun raising the issue again more stridently, however. - ed. note]



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