"There is no threat of closure of the headquarters of the Council for Research in agricoltuta (CRA) of Rovigo, the only center in Italy authorized to produce cannabis for therapeutic use", announced the Ministry of Agriculture in a statement released to news agencies, a time to deny the news release Saturday announcing the closure of the center of Rovigo, only one in Italy where you make cannabis research.

The event was organized within the City's Economy, with laboratories, workshops and organic hemp food 

This year's march, which takes place every year in May, switched modes. In fact, the Million Marijuana March, now in its 15th year, will cover no more than the streets of central Rome but will be held May 9, 2015 from 13 pm, at the Economy City Ex Slaughterhouse. During the event there will be the presentation of books, laboratories and workshops, banquets information, an area dedicated to debates, and especially organic hemp food.

The Italian military aims to lowers the cost of medical marijuana by growing it themselves!

The Italian army has unveiled its first cannabis farm, set up to try to lower the cost of medical marijuana in the country.

According to officials at a government-funded greenhouse outside Florence, Italy’s first medical marijuana crop, grown by the country’s military – is “coming along nicely”

In Italy cannabis it is now as widespread as wine, spirits and cigarettes so we might as well accept it and change strategy. As is fashionable now. Perhaps to allow the State to save a part of human and technological resources that involve increasing costs. And on the other hand (why not?) To check the legality of a product that is distributed by the State and removed from the Mafia, it is estimated that could give an increase in taxes of 7-10 billion euro a year. A maneuver of adjustment that today would solve all the problems with Europe, which looks to our accounts to the last euro.

The Italian army has unveiled its first cannabis farm, set up to try to lower the cost of medical marijuana in the country.

An effort to legalize marijuana is getting underway in the Italian parliament, with some 60 lawmakers having signed onto a motion to do just that by the time it was rolled out three weeks ago. Now, the "all party" group is getting to work on the twin tasks of drafting an actual bill and getting it enacted into law.

The effort is being led by Sen. Benedetto Della Vedova, who is also Italy's undersecretary of state for foreign affairs. Della Vedova was a long-time member of the country's Nonviolent Radical Party, but was elected to parliament as a member of the centrist Scelta Civica.

A cross in front of a hundred MPs preparing the text of the law to bring in committee.

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. 

Detectives from Organised Crime Branch have seized drugs worth £800,000, an undisclosed amount of cash and made six arrests as part of an international investigation into the illegal supply of ‘skunk’ cannabis into Northern Ireland.

Those arrested include four men and two women with ages ranging between 26 years and 33 years old.

The PSNI is the lead investigator in an operation involving colleagues from the Italian Carabiniere and the National Crime Agency.

In a major search operation on Tuesday, detectives believe they have arrested significant members of a crime gang who have been involved in money laundering and drugs trafficking activities.

In Florence arrives the cannabis Army: they produce a ton a year, but the demand is growing and the greenhouse could triple production.

FLORENCE - The greenhouse is complete at 250 square meters and 3 meters heigh. The lamps are installed in special frequency, the irrigation system is connected to the computer, the soil is in the plastic pots. Already today the Cra-Cin Rovigo should start a van, escorted, with 100 cuttings in cannabis. The destination is Florence, where the headquarters of the Military Chemical pharmaceutical plant are.