Italian MPs prepare draft bill to regulate cannabis

Italy could be on its way to legalize cannabis after a group of 60 MPs have gathered to draft a "pragmatic, non-ideological" bill to regulate the use of the weed, reports ANSA news agency.

The proposal, led by Senator Benedetto Della Vedova is backed by a group of 60 sentors, most of them from the ruling center-left Democratic Party and a minor support from right-wing MPs.

Della Vedova, deputy foreign minister is a longtime member of Radical Party, which has campaigned since the 1970s to liberalize marijuana laws. "Repressive action has totally failed", he told. 

“It is a bipartisan proposition from members of the parliament of different political backgrounds,” Della Vedova told reporters, according to The Weed Blog. “This shows that even in Italy, a pragmatic approach, based on a rigorous cost-benefit analysis, is now increasingly popular in the political and cultural debate, not only outside but also inside the parliament.”

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