Thursday, May 14, 2015

Drugs turn you into 'moving corpses', Samir Geagea warns youth

BEIRUT: Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea pleaded Friday with his young supporters not to smoke marijuana, insisting that its effects were potentially as dangerous as any other drug.

“I want to stop at a very, very, very important issue, because it is about something that could derail all our dreams for a rising generation and a new nation, and this issue is drug use,” Geagea told a crowd that gathered in the Mount Lebanon town of Maarab at a student-organized event.

“There are many people in society who promote cruel theories saying, for example, that light drugs do not cause any harm, and are mere tranquilizers or so,” he added, referring to marijuana.

“However, the scientific facts say something totally different. Drugs, all kinds of them, light and heavy, are poisons that gradually, even if by different paces, destroy humans’ capacities, especially psychological and mental ones,” he said.

“It transforms them into mere biological beings roaming the earth without a compass, a cause, a meaning or a purpose.”

Samir Geagea said he was emphasizing drug use because a “large part” of students and parents “do not give it the importance it deserves.”

He related the matter to Lebanese Forces’ continuity as a “revolutionary” movement, because drugs “kill the human inside the human” and renders him a “moving corpse” with no brain.

He called on parents “to keep an eye on their children and prevent them from falling into this terrible trap.” Addressing the youth, he said: “As you have refused subjection to any occupier, refuse subjection to any kind of drugs, be it hashish, pills, cocaine, heroin, needles or digital drugs.”

He said his party’s youth department would launch an awareness raising campaign on the dangers of drugs in schools and universities starting the next academic year.

“So be ready to eliminate this illness before it eliminates our society,” he said. “And do not forget that we are a revolution against all what’s corrupt and rotten in Lebanon, on top of which is drug use.”

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