Italy. Cannabis, Bernardini: hit farmers DIY favors monopoly mafia
"A year ago, exactly 14 August, the Italian Radicals, reported in a statement - from a simple observation of the reports in the newspapers - you could define Italians 'a nation of coltivatorià of cannabis'. This year 'owner to the Ansa news agency in a report of August 12' boom in Rome of "grass" do it yourself '. It's not just because of Rome 'phenomenon continues to spread throughout Italy. The fact is that in recent years the legislature has churned out prohibitionist laws more and more 'severe that produced the brilliant result of increasing the number of consumers reached an estimated more' recent alarming figure of five million. "He Rita Bernardini said in a note Radical members elected from the lists of Pd. "One thing seems clear: those who consume hashish and marijuana is not 'believed to have a particularly unbecoming conduct, much less to be a criminal who commits crimes. On the other hand is not 'insane criminals consider five million people? And the question of the punishment 'of home-grown is not clear, the dancers also demonstrated by the judgments of the Supreme Court that - just to cite two examples - May 10, 2007, held not subject to criminal conduct engaged in by a man who had grown in the ground five cannabis plants, while on April 24 this year, the same Court ruled that 'is any conduct subject to criminal activity' of unauthorized cultivation of plants from which are extracted drugs, even if the product obtained is intended for personal use. '"" Another chapter ignored by legislators that persecutes our own farmers' do-it-yourself' that, on balance, pulling up some plants at least avoid to make contact with the criminal market for drug traffickers, are the huge profits that thanks to the prohibition are prerogative of the latter. Only the 'Ndrangheta, according to data reported today by Eurispes 2008 Sole 24 ore, obtained from drug trafficking, 62 percent of its illegal proceeds, much of € 27.24 billion a year, a figure that approaches the budget package recently passed by Berlusconi's government for three years 2008-2009-2010, amounting to 29.19 billion di euro".
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