legal Cannabis? The Chamber shall be discussed by July 25. Meanwhile, the experts interviewed by the Justice and Social Affairs committees of the House already on June 15, they said that yes, cannabis for personal use and you can legalize physician.
the bill in the House on July 25
they did it with ways and with different shades and stressed that to handle the eventual sale should be managed by the state. The hearings were scheduled in the examination of the bill brought forward by the Parlimentary composed of 220 deputies and 73 senators and promoted by Secretary Benedetto Della Vedova it leads, in fact, in the classroom to the House on July 25 for general discussion, almost a year after the filing of the text. From July 26 begins the vote.
Garattini a hearing on July 1
Meanwhile, and hearings resumed. And, on July 1, the fees await Sabrina Molinaro, head of the Epidemiology Section of the Institute IFC-CNR; Luca Navarini, representative of Rosario Livatino Studies Center; representatives of the Agency of Customs and of the monopolies and the Luca Coscioni; and, thereafter, Silvio Garattini, director of the Institute of Pharmacological Research Mario Negri Institute in Milan; Bruno Mazzocchi, head of palliative care unit ASL 9 of Grosseto; Italian representatives of the Agency of the drug, the Association Forum Drugs and Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association.
Statistics: strict laws, higher consumption
On June 15, Carla Rossi, a professor of medical statistics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, said the united commissions:” In Italy, where the law is more restrictive, there is a higher use of cannabis than in Portugal, where the legislation is more tender (but there is no legalization), and Poland, where it is not mandatory prosecution of those who are caught in possession. ” In France, where the law is more restrictive than in Italy, he added Rossi citing data released by the European, cannabis has a higher diffusion: about 8 million compared with the fourth of Italy.
In Italy, is used with increasing frequency
According to a survey by the National Research Council, since 1999 it remains” stable cannabis use among boys aged 15 to 19 years. ” It increased by much the frequency: from 2011 “20 and several times a month.” Always on the basis of the National Research Council data, “the most affected age group is very young in Italy than in other countries.” According to the European Monitoring Guidelines, which coincide with the data of the report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department, “the crackdown on complaints and seizures of cannabis is effective on only 5% of the market, it also demonstrated by the fact that prices have not been altered. ”
Reactions: Mr Costa contrast
the landing reactions in the Chamber of the bill in late July are very different. The Minister for Regional Affairs with responsibility for family affairs, Enrico Costa, said: “The state can not afford inconsistencies and, where there are, must be removed or at least mitigated. With one hand we fight ludopatie, cancer, drug addiction, and, with the other hand, we enjoy the resources deriving from the game and the smoke and, maybe tomorrow, the legalization of cannabis. It is consistent all this? “. Conversely Riccardo Magi, secretary of the Italian Radicals, commented: “It is excellent news landfall in plenary at the July exam Chamber of the law for the legalization of cannabis … How Radicals continue collecting signatures on the law of initiative popular legalize the campaign to fight this battle with the citizen and on a front even more advanced. ”
A workhorse of the radicals
it is these radicals who are fighting, since the seventies, for the legalization of soft drugs. On 11 October 1979, the Corriere della Sera he published an article in which he recorded the membership of “de facto” of the Communist Party to the radical proposals. In those days Jean Fabre and Angiolo Bandinelli were locked up in the prison of Regina Coeli, in Rome, awaiting trial for summary. Angiolo Bandinelli, radical Rome city councilor, was arrested on October 4, to have smoked a joint during a session of the City Council; the day after he was arrested the secretary of the Radical Party, Jean Fabre, who made the same gesture during a press conference.
In 1979, the support “de facto” of the Communist Party
Incidentally, 1979 was the golden year of the general election and European radicals of June: one million and 280 thousand votes, 3.7%, more than three times compared to 1976. the radical left well especially in the cities: in Trento and Bolzano they exceeded 8%, in Rome and Cagliari 7%, in Milan took 6.9%, in Torino and Udine 6.7%. In “good” neighborhoods in Rome and Milan they arrived at 12%. Despite this, and despite the support of the Communists, the legalization of soft drugs (the radicals considered them “no drugs”) not passed. The then Minister of Health, the Liberal Renato Altissimo, argued that the law 22 December 1975 n. 685, namely that the Discipline of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, which allowed the personal use in small quantities, was fine.
2002: Gasparri against the therapeutic use
the debate was reopened several times: 3 May 2002 Corriere della Sera announced: “National Alliance is the wall against the order of the day in favor of marijuana for therapeutic use. And not only within the Lombardy Regional Council who voted for the motion across the board, from Forza Italian Rifondazione Comunista. ” Maurizio Gasparri, then Minister of Communications, threatened to raise the issue in the Council of Ministers. The previous Tuesday, the Lombardy Regional Council had approved a document which asked the government to “regulate the medical use of cannabis and its derivatives.” At the same time it approved a text against the legalization of drugs. In essence, the broad front of support was in fact linked to the fact that they spoke only of “medical use.”
The government legalized the medical use
the green light to the cultivation of cannabis for” medical use “is then reached twice by the government: the last in January 2016. in the meantime, however, is complicated at use” recreational. ” Since February 2014 made the Italian legislation registers a vacuum, after a ruling by the Constitutional Court declared the illegitimacy of the law 48 of 2006, better known as Fini – Giovanardi. The law equated soft drugs to hard drugs, introducing criminal punishment (with penalties ranging from 6 to 20 years imprisonment) for “personal use.” Welcomed, from the very beginning by many critics, the Fini-Giovanardi was therefore declared illegal and this determined the return of Iervolino – Vassalli, 1990, which established penalties minor (2 to 6 years old) for the use of drugs read.
Salvini in 2014: first legalize prostitution
Just before the judgment of the Consulta, on January 8, 2014, the Corriere della Sera , was back on the issue with an article by Alessandra Arachi. At the time the fuse had been turned back unexpectedly from the League leaders: the Lombard Gianni Fava commissioner and the deputy Gianluca Pini had called for a review of the Fini-Giovanardi. The then newly-secretary of the Northern League, Matteo Salvini, was immediately intervened: “If the league has to think of a liberalization this will be for prostitution, not for cannabis.” No direct link. But Gasparri you’ll risk against any openings, while the leader of Sel Nichi Vendola twittava: “Fini-Giovanardi law is wrong, fierce, ineffective. Prohibition is godsend to traffickers. It’s time to legalize cannabis. ” Matteo Renzi, in the role of secretary of the Democratic Party, showed cautious: “It seems schizophrenic a country where you pass by prohibition total liberalization of soft drugs. We begin to change the Fini-Giovanardi which is a leggiaccia …. ”
The bill C. 3328
from July 25 it goes further: the bill C. 3328 proposes to legalize the possession of up to 15 grams of marijuana in their homes and up to 5 grams on the outside; then allows the cultivation of up to five plants in your home. Penalties for small market remain unchanged, but the bill provides that groups of individuals can form associations nonprofit, allowed to grow marijuana for its members. In the bill there is also the possibility of opening shops in which sell marijuana for recreational purposes in a tax regime similar to the (salty) in force for tobacco.
June 30, 2016 (edited June 30, 2016 | 24:00)
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