ITALY: The new drug law, which was insinuated into the legislative process as an amendment to the decree on the forthcoming Olympics.
‘First he forces through a law that slams people in goal for just owning a joint, then he admits on national television that smoking one does no harm’.
The government has obtained a vote of confidence for the new drug law, which was insinuated into the legislative process as an amendment to the decree on the forthcoming Olympics.
Marco Perduca, LIA secretary, points out that the law ignores the positive outcome of the 1993 referendum promoted by the Radicals, which abolished the concept of quantity for distinguishing between personal use and pushing... even though this was never fully applied in action. The new law, he says, is a part of the governing parties’ philosophy that the state must protect the citizen against himself.
Emma Bonino, Eurodeputy in the European Parliament, says that by now there is no more personal freedom in Italy... you have to go to Holland to smoke a joint.
Gianfranco Fini, foreign minister, leader of the far-right Alleanza Nazionale party and genius motor of the new drug law, admits to having smoked a joint in Jamaica years ago and to having been ‘out of his head’ for two days afterwards.
‘A strange manoeuvre’, says Radical secretary Daniele Capezzone. ‘First he forces through a law that slams people in goal for just owning a joint, then he admits on national television that smoking one does no harm’.
Marco Contini, secretary of Antiproibizionisti.it, points out that by Jamaican law, both cultivation and consumption of cannabis is illegal. ‘It would seem’, he adds, ‘that our foreign minister is willing to go abroad to do illegal things’.
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