For the Colombian Association of Ceremonial and Protocol, the proposal of the former governor of Antioquia and presidential candidate, is breaking the patriotic symbols.
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During the last days there was a striking participation in a presidential debate that ended in controversy. The proposal of the former governor of Antioquia and presidential candidate, Luis Pérez Gutiérrez, to put a marijuana leaf on the Colombian flag triggered a long list of opinions and rejections.
The episode was presented last Tuesday, March 29, when the presidential candidate debate held by the Externado University was taking place.
With a marijuana leaf
This would be the case, according to the proposal.
That day, the alternatives that the candidates would propose for the eradication and substitution of illicit crops were discussed.
Pérez, as El Espectador highlights, detailed that Colombia had “failed with glyphosate”, for which he “proposed that the 200,000 hectares where there are coca crops be replaced by cannabis crops -of all kinds: industrial, medicinal, recreational and food-“.
And he assured that said economy around cannabis generates and moves about 350,000 million dollars.
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The candidate specified that this situation had to be “looked at as a statesman. The whole world is going to start fighting for that economy. Today there are more than 60 countries that have started to legalize cannabis.”
Likewise, he stated:
- “If cannabis is planted in Colombia where there is coca, 17 jobs per hectare can be generated, “that is, three million jobs”, to which is added the export of oils and derived pharmaceutical products “for about 50,000 million dollars ”.
Another of the arguments he made was that “the green economy is going to be the revolution in this country”… “It must be legalized in the recreational, industrial, food and pharmaceutical sectors. If cannabis gives us three million jobs we should name it the national leaf. I would propose, with the respect of the Congress of the Republic, that we change the flag.”
After the episode, there were many criticisms and statements rejecting the proposal. One of them was carried out by the Colombian Association of Ceremonial and Protocol.
“It would be to break our national symbols”
From the association they reported through a communication that they flatly rejected the former governor’s proposal.
Indicating that “according to Decree 1967 of 1991, which regulates the use of national symbols such as: The flag, the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem, we can show that what Mr. Pérez proposes violates Article 6”:
- “The National Flag must be used in its original form; no kind of adornment that alters its representativeness may be elaborated with it”.
- «The change suggested by Mr. Pérez is not in accordance with full compliance with our Political Constitution, given that the flag deserves decent and solemn treatment. This should be excluded from the contexts of advertising strategies.
- “From the Colombian Association of Ceremonial and Protocol, we express our voice of nonconformity and invite the presidential candidate to rethink his proposal since it would be to break our symbols patriots».
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