After more than two years of waiting that seemed interminable, unjust punishments and a spanner in the works, the self-production law of cannabis was approved by the Justice Commission and today, June 24, it should arrive at the Chamber of Deputies to be discussed.
What does this mean? From today we could cultivate our cannabis seedlings with THC in sunlight? Absolutely not. From a legislative point of view, nothing has changed, but the law will finally be able to be discussed in the Chamber.
What does the bill provide?
I main points of the basic text that will have to be discussed in the Chamber are the following:
- For the crime of production, possession and dealing (Art 73) the law is introduced minor cases, so as to punish less severe cases less severely
- For personal use, the cultivation of 4 plants of cannabis
- If it's a person drug addict to commit the crime of drug dealing, she will no longer be punished with prison but with gods socially useful work
- The penalties increase in cases of:
- criminal association
- when the crime is committed against minors
- when the crime is committed by someone in possession of an authorization to produce for medical and research purposes
Home cultivation law: timing and motivations
For them timing Riccardo Magi, President of Più Europa and first signatory of the proposal, maintains that the Chamber should discuss and approve the law before the summer break, so that, when work resumes in September, the debate in the Senate.
“As we often remember, when the referendum, yes Count that Read they slipped away saying that their proposal was the one that was in Parliament, which is this one, it's not like there are others. Now it's about keep faith to this statement", Magi finally underlined Dolce Vita.
Meglio Legale highlighted that several experts, among those called to the Commission, "have highlighted the positive aspects of the decriminalization of cultivation, especially in terms of fight against crime, of less pressure on the police and the justice system.
Even the anti-mafia prosecutor himself, Cafiero de Raho, declared that "cultivation for personal use would reduce the need for the consumer to turn to criminal laborers, taking away organized crime's market share”.
Super event for the discussion of the proposal in the Chamber
For the occasion, the campaign for legalization Better Legal organized a super event. A special day that will see over 80 guests, 10 parliamentarians and over 300 plants parade.
“This day aims to discuss, debate, have fun, but above all put pressure on the institutions. June 24th will come after a long time in the Chamber the text on home cultivation of cannabis. It's time for the institutions to translate what is a popular request for common sense,” he said Antonella Soldo, coordinator of Meglio Legale.
