2025

Hemp for Victory!
By Enrico Fletzer

At the eve of the national demonstration against the Security Laws on Saturday 31st of May scheduled at 2 PM in Piazza Vittorio, Rome

Cannabis seems to be the obsession of Mr. Alfredo Mantovano, a right wing politician who in the recent past inspired the so-called Law Fini-Giovanardi that had equaled heroin with cannabis, and which introduced penalties up to 20 years of prison terms for possessing, dealing and even the non-profit sharing of illegal substances. We all saw his modest speech at the CND plenary this year in his mixed array of moralistic views about the corrupted mores of the global youth at the base of the drug scourge.
Not following even today the Einstein motto on the insanity consisting on repeating failed attempts, even then the illegal law in 2007 was passed as a mandatory “urgent measure” to ensure the budget of the Winter Olympics was finally cancelled on the 2014 by the Constitutional Court in a verdict that did not consider its contents but rather the obnoxious procedures adopted to pass the decree as an emergency measure, a decision taken with no discussion in the Parliament and not consistent with the Italian Constitution. Just like it is happening in these hours in Rome on the so called Security Law being passed with no discussion and with some amounts of beatings in the streets of Rome.

In a growing spiraling of penal populism Giorgia Meloni claims to have re- established the prevalent value of the private property in a extremely dramatic situation with overfilled prisons with 20.515 inmates, being the 34,1% subject of a single law, the Art 73 on drugs with 17.406 prisoners , 28,9% who are labelled as being drug dependent. Decimalization , amnesties and legal regulation are considered yet as a practicable solution also in parts of the opposition.

The continuing moral stigma, according the above mentioned former subsecretary on Justice lead from 1990 to a mass persecution of the Italian Youth, with 1.400.000 persons labelled as drug addicts and with more than a million subjected to heavy administrative penalties like the loss of the driving license and passport for the mere possession.

The actual Decree on Security, nicknamed as the Scare Decree shows many unconstitutional aspects and in the case of cannabis is also clearly clashing with the EU regulations on the free exchange of goods throughout the Union. But as a matter of fact, the Italian and European Courts stopping this scoundrel will be always a bit late to correct the records and accordingly the impact on the penal and social system will be huge. All acts of civil nonviolent protest will be practically made impossible. The planned national conference on drugs planned on the 7/8 November 2025 in Rome will be possibly another step of the authoritarian regime to introduce further pain and distress to the Italian lower classes and social activists. An alternative conference is also planned.

In the meanwhile trains, buses and private cars are organizing possibly the biggest protest against the present government. Also a big and unexpected comeback of the activists of the Million Marijuana March in Rome that in the past organized the biggest Cannabis Parade of the world but which had been long quite silent. With 8 loaded trucks of 20 meters length and quite a different musical and political potential the impact of the march will be one of the highlights of the oncoming struggle for freedom in Italy. Hemp for victory!

For further references
www.globalproject.info
www.millionmarijuanamarch.info

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