Hello everyone, if you do not know, in a few days in Italy will be brought in the parliament the draft law on the legalization of cannabis. If ever the law passed in Italy becomes very similar to Holland.
See here the law point by point:
- The more than 18 years may hold for recreational use an amount equivalent to 5g of cannabis out of house and 15g in the house, absolutely prohibited for minors.
- With a simple notification to the appropriate authorities, You can grow up to five plants for personal use, not for resale the harvest.
- It will be granted the cultivation in association with non-profit organizations and with a maximum of 50 members. 5 plants per member.
- Prior authorization, it will grow and work for sale in dedicated shops, provided of monopolies licenses. prohibited import and export.
- Allowed to cultivate for therapeutic purposes and facilitated the purchase for the same purpose.
- You can not smoke in any public place, even in parks.
- Ban on driving while impaired, sanctions and laws, remain the same.
- 5% of the income from legalization will be allocated to the National Fund for the fight against drugs.
The situation
According to the polls the majority is still in the no, but increasingly parliamentary start looking at it as a good opportunity, already more than 200 are in favor of legalization. It will not be easy to do but it's not a mission impossible.
It is not impossible because it would bring a lot of money in taxes and so they would have more to steal...
From one side though many politicians know they are corrupted by the Mafia, and this law would take away many profits of the latter. This is why many politicians invent false morality to obstruct the proposed law.
My personal Opinion
It might be the right shot to increase the Italian economy, you must think of the tourism that could generate a fusion of the Bel Paese and cannabis in coffee shops as in Holland. In Italy we find as many as 70% of the world's artistic heritage, you have to imagine being able to visit cities like Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Palermo and can also find points of sale of cannabis as you were in Amsterdam. I am sure that tourism would have a great growth!
Second, it would take away many people from the streets, creating a culture on the use of cannabis and are not an end to the buzz, because as many know there are hundreds of beneficial qualities of it if you use it the right way.
Third, they would have the quality controls and does not run the risk of using cannabis or derivatives cut with harmful substances.
I personally am pro legalization, the important thing for me is to be sanctioned heavily those who use it and then starts driving, because that's where it becomes dangerous for themselves and the next!