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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Italy Marches Closer to Decriminalization, Draws Line at Terrace Grows 🌿Italy Marches Closer to Decriminalization, Draws Line at Terrace Grows
Italy spent last week reforming policies related to a number of minor offenses, including lessening penalties for the cultivation of cannabis for medical reasons.
Justice Minister Andrea Orlando approved the bill to decriminalize growing cannabis for medical use, but warned, “This does not decriminalize those growing weed on their terrace,” an exceptionally Italian way to phrase it. Cultivating cannabis for personal use still carries a harsh penalty — up to a year in prison and a fine of €4 million.
The bill will notably lighten punishments on medical researchers who grow more crops than they’re allotted, for which case they'd incur a fine rather than a prison sentence.
One of the motivations for making reforms to the laws, which also decriminalized driving without a license and intentional deception, was to ease congestion in the Italian justice system.
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