Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First I want to thank you for being here today.
My first question is mainly about drugs, but also about tobacco. Tobacco has been banned in prisons for several years now, and has meant that cigarettes have become currency. This has increased contraband tobacco and other drugs, mainly anything that can be brought into a prison.
My question may seem far-fetched. From the perspective of reducing misdemeanours, if we consider that heroin, crack and PCP are much more harmful drugs in the short and long term than tobacco, could reintroducing tobacco outside—and not inside the prison, to protect the health of non-smoking inmates—be a solution to reducing trafficking in other drugs?