ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned on Friday against legalising drugs, calling addiction an "evil" which he said had to be resisted without compromise.
Setting himself against the trend in several western countries to allow the use of so-called soft drugs like marijuana, Francis said narcotics were putting more and more young people in danger.
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