Image: Screengrab from YouTube/Bongbong Marcos
MANILA, Philippines — Presidential aspirant Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday said he cannot do illegal drugs because he is doing so many things.
In an interview over DZRH, he was asked if he ever used illicit drugs, even in his youth.
He said using drugs is only for people who have nothing to do or are jobless.
“Hindi ako puwede sa ganiyan [illegal drugs]. Masyado akong maraming ginagawa,” he said in an interview over DZRH.
(I can’t do that. I am doing so many things.)
“That kind of lifestyle, para lang ‘yan sa mga walang ginagawa, walang trabaho. If you expect to produce good work, hindi ka pwede sumailalim sa ganyang bisyo,” he added.
(That kind of lifestyle is only for people who have nothing to do, those who are jobless. If you expect to produce good work, you cannot have that vice.)
The issue of illegal drugs became a hot topic when President Rodrigo Duterte accused last year an unnamed presidential candidate of using illegal drugs, particularly cocaine.
Duterte’s claim led presidential aspirants to undergo drug tests.
Marcos Jr. subsequently presented a drug test result which he then submitted to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, National Bureau of Investigation, and Philippine National Police.