The statements of Mattia Santoriwho candidly admitted to consuming and growing cannabis at home for personal use, fit into the larger picture of leftist maneuvers to legalize the cultivation of cannabis plants. marijuana. The bill will arrive in parliament in the coming weeks but the compact center-right, both the government and the opposition center, has already vetoed, declaring itself strongly against the plan for the legalization of domestic crops. It is an ideological and electoral battle of the left, which must be considered as such, which clashes with the line of Mario Draghi’s government.
The Democratic Party, the party that claims to take sides without ifs and buts with the Prime Minister, is waging a battle that clashes with what was declared in an in-depth analysis by the Department for Drug Policies hosted on the government website, made in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry for Agricultural and Forestry Policies. The issue consists of 180 pages, is edited by Giovanni Serpelloniand is available for download here.
In the presentation, the author focuses on “remember the main negative effects and the damage that cannabis causes on humans, as well as some important aspects necessary to understand how the legalization proposals do not find rscientific action neither from the scientific point of view, nor from that of health planning“. This is mainly because, as stated in the document,”the most accredited scientific studies have shown for years that cannabis is a psychoactive, neurotoxic and dangerous substance for one’s own and others’ mental and physical health“.
The biggest risks are run by the very young who approach cannabis at an age adolescentor “when the brain is in the delicate phase of brain development and maturation that ends after the age of 21“The list of damages that can result from the use of cannabis is quite long and it seems that the document is completely ignored by the promoters and supporters of the legalization, which is evident both for electoral purposes only.
“Those who stand for free drugs are responsible for the loss of thousands of young and old. The left takes on the very serious responsibility to contradict what is read on the official website of the Draghi government to which he belongs, putting the majority in crisis. So does the evil of future generations and of Italy“, he has declared Matteo Salvini commenting on the document. In a note from the League it is pointed out that, as is well explained in the manual, “cannabis use is responsible for the increased risk of evolving towards heroin and cocaine use (over 90% of heroin addicts started with cannabis); 8.2-fold increase in the risk of death from road accidents (95% CI 6.3-10.5)“.
And again, among the risks that are included in the document on the official website of the government there are also “increased risk of death from suicide 5.3 times (95% CI 3.3-7.9); increased risk of death from homicide / violence: 3.8 (95% CI 1.5-7.9); increased risk of death from natural causes 2.8 (95% CI 2.0-3.7)“.