“One of the most important issues that Parliament will discuss during the current session week is the anti-drug reform, which will play a significant and decisive role in the fight against drugs and drug-related crimes,” stated Rati Ionatamishvili, the Human Rights Protection and Civil Integration Committee Chair.

In his assessment, the public knows well that the liberal drug policy was an approach imposed from outside and had specific, hostile objectives against Georgia.

“These objectives were to damage the Georgian gene pool, weaken the state, and cause its degeneration. Therefore, reform is an important process, and we must make decisions that will protect, first and foremost, our future generations to the highest standard and establish a healthy lifestyle for them,” noted the Committee Chairman.

According to him, during the anti-drug reform process, the radical opposition has taken the side of drug crime, and this approach is not surprising.

“We are not surprised by these people because when important issues arise, they always take positions hostile to Georgia. For example, in times of war and peace, they stand on the side of war; in times of sovereignty and slavery, they stand on the side of slavery; in times of betrayal and national patriotism, they choose the side of betrayal.

Therefore, we must work with high responsibility in this direction, as it is also a fact that today the fight against drug crime presents a problem even for the strongest and most developed states. The most important thing the state must do in this process is to wage an uncompromising fight against drug dealers because selling drugs is not just a crime committed by one specific person or group against an individual, but it is a crime that undermines public safety.

Therefore, drug dealers will be subject to the same strict criminal justice policy as exists for murder, since in terms of consequences, these are related crimes,” declared Rati Ionatamishvili.