Cannabis, proposed by 218 MPs legalize – The Messenger

The point is not to ask ‘if’ cannabis be legalized in Italy, but rather ‘when’. For the 218 MPs who have signed and submitted a bill on the matter, the process is now inevitable and the time to complete it is “now”.

The signatures come a bit ‘from across the political spectrum: Pd, M5s, Sel, but also Mixed Fi and Sc. No one at the time from the ranks of the League. Because Matteo Salvini just does not fit: cannabis should not be legalized, he says. Better than the legalization of prostitution because – he explains – “until proven otherwise sex does not hurt, cannabis yes.”

Yet – replicate the signatories to Salvini – public opinion goes in a completely different direction. According to an Ipsos survey, for 83% of Italian laws against the spread of soft drugs in Italy they are little or not effective and 73% think that Italy could follow the same path of some US states that have already legalized marijuana. A road could also be good for our budget (thus 58%). Prohibition, the dose increased the coverage of the signatories of the bill, which “will be filed shortly,” has “failed.

Even the National Anti-Mafia Directorate supports the total failure of the repressive contrast to the spread of derivatives from cannabis’. “They increased consumers, increased the money from the mafia and processes,” says the promoter of the Intergroup, Benedetto Della Vedova (Mixed). To change now “is a measure of civilization.” In this project the following, among others Roberto Giachetti (Pd), Luigi Manconi (Pd), Alessandro Di Battista (M5s), Luigi Di Maio (M5s), Giuseppe Civati ​​(Mixed), Stefano Fassina (Mixed), Arturo Scotto (Sel), Pierpaolo Vargiu (Sc).

But what do you foresee in detail the bill? The older can hold a small amount of cannabis for recreational use : 15 grams at home, 5 grams outside the home. Absolute prohibition instead for minors. The marijuana will be grown at home (up to a maximum of 5 plants), but the harvest can not be sold.

Here come the Cannabis Social Club : to over 18 residents in Italy it will be permitted the cultivation in a partnership in non-profit organizations (up to 50 members). Also precise rules regarding the sale permission you can nurture it and work it and will be in retail stores dedicated, supplied license of Monopoly. instead Prohibited import and export . The bill allows the ‘ self-cultivation for therapeutic purposes and will be simpler modes of delivery, prescription and dispensing of medicines based on cannabis.

They remain bans smoking in public places (including parks) and if driving while impaired. The proceeds will be used for the legalization of the 5% to the financing of the projects of the National Fund for the fight against drugs. A law to “full”, according to the signatories.

“The world is changing and Italy is always last. Now take the opportunity to legalize cannabis, “says the leader of Sel, Nichi Vendola. “Legalization is a matter of justice,” adding M5s MPs in the House Judiciary Committee. “With 8 million consumers legalization is already in practice,” says Adriana Galgano (Sc). But in spite of the appeal that the signatories turn to their colleagues, for the bill to become a reality (“We face the empirical data,” Fassina asks; “Do not lose the opportunity to explain exactly what it is,” he adds Civati) , there’s already the first ‘niet’.

“Since FDI-An absolute no to this madness,” says President Giorgia Meloni. “For me if you can forget,” he added the leader of the deputies of popular area, Maurizio Lupi. The proposal – to complete the senators Carlo Giovanardi (Ncd) and Maurizio Gasparri (FI) – “the only consequence will increase the spread of drugs and the increase in traffic of organized crime.”