This is something interesting I came across over morning coffee. While North America remains gripped by a devastating synthetic opioid crisis, Italy presents a strange epidemiological anomaly: of the hundreds of drug overdoses recorded in the country last year, fentanyl accounted for just two. This absence isn't due to a lack of substance use or logistical ineptitude—the … [Read more...] about Bad for Business: Why Italy’s Mob Isn’t Buying Fentanyl
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Italy’s ‘cannabis light’ trade may go up in smoke with law change
Marijuana production is illegal in Italy. But eight years ago, parliament authorized trade in hemp, a cannabis variety grown for its industrial and non-psychoactive uses. Now, Meloni's arch-conservative coalition government says the 2016 law is too lax - and wants to ban any product deriving from the hemp flower. Hemp producers, like Alessio Amicone, are crying foul at its … [Read more...] about Italy’s ‘cannabis light’ trade may go up in smoke with law change
A high ambition: Italian Army aims for self-sufficient cannabis market
FLORENCE, Italy — In a bid to become self-sufficient in the field of legal, medical cannabis, Italy is growing plants using secret nutrients in ultra-clean rooms managed with military precision. No wonder it called in the Army to handle the task. Next year, the Italian service plans to produce 700 kilograms (1,543 pounds) of top-grade cannabis to cover nearly half of the 1,500 … [Read more...] about A high ambition: Italian Army aims for self-sufficient cannabis market
