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Newsbrief:
Italian
Legislative
Body
Asks
for
Medical
Marijuana
5/3/02
On Monday, the Regional Council
of Lombardy, Italy's most important regional legislative assembly, passed
a motion asking "the Government and the Parliament to regulate the medical
use of cannabis and its derivatives." The move could draw Italy more
deeply into the ongoing international debate over medicinal uses of cannabis.
Although the motion was presented
by the Transnational Radical Party/Bonino's list legislative bloc, it was
also endorsed by a broad spectrum of other parties, including Forza Italia
(the party of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi), the Christian Democrats,
the Italian Peoples' Party, the Retired Party, the Socialists, the Greens
and the Communist Refoundation Party.
Yasha Reibman, physician
and Member of the Regional Council for the Transnational Radical Party,
released the follow statement after the vote: "It is an historic
decision, and thanks to this vote we can continue to defend freedom of
cure both for the physicians and for the patients. Each physician
should be allowed to prescribe the cure and the medicines that he deems,
according to science and conscience, the most useful to the patients.
Thousands of patients need the regulation of the medical use of cannabis
to improve their quality of life."
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Issue #235, 5/3/02
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