Pot Farming, Italian Army style
Situated amid the beautiful and history-laden streets of Florence there’s a secure pharmaceutical facility where medical marijuana is being grown by an organization one wouldn’t typically associate with either farming or cannabis: The Italian Army.
“To the best of my knowledge, it is the only situation in which the ministry of defence of a European country is tasked with such production,” says Marco Perduca, a former senator in Italy and the current United Nations representative for the Nonviolent Radical Party.
The Army is busy growing its first marijuana crop as part of a government effort to provide an affordable and safe supply of medical cannabinoids for use in the country. The plan was announced in September and the operation is now up and running.
“They allow for medical marijuana use in Italy, but they haven’t had a national cultivation program yet. So they allow for it, but people still have...
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