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The Committee to Promote a Referendum presents...... Legalization illustrated!
For adults!
One in three Italians have smoked cannabis at least once.
Regular users number more than 3 millions. That's roughly equivalent to the number
of people who attend live soccer matches.
Then, there are hard drugs. Strictly prohibited for years,
but still their use continues to rise.
Even in schools!
Organized crime makes tens of billions of euro every year from the black market for drugs.
If the government would legalize cannabis like tobacco,
it would generate some 8 billion euro each year.
That's more than double the proposed homeowner's tax. It would be enough to build 30 new hospitals
or to buy 60 F35 planes.
Well... it's just an example.
Every year, we would save some 2 billion euro that is now being spent on enforcement of current laws.
That would be enough to make 6,000 kindergarten for 180,000 kids, and create 40,000 jobs!
The backed up justice system would be unclogged and the police and judges
would have more resources to pursue violent crimes.
There are around 800,000 drug-related cases in our courts that choke our justice system
and contribute to prisons overcrowding. One in three prison inmates
have been convicted of drug-related crimes.
The legalization and the transformation of drug-dependency into a medical issue
would have a stuggering effect on justice, public security,
the economy and the health system.
At the same time, cannabis has also proved to be an extraordinary natural remedy.
A treatment for ailments like cancer, glaucoma, Parkinson, multiple sclerosis and ALS.
In any case, the current war on drugs makes no sense.
Prohibition doesn't work. It makes more victims that drugs themselves.
The results are in plain sight.
The Netherlands and Portugal got it right. Years ago they decriminalized personal consumption
without causing an increase in the number of consumers. A smart move from any perspective.
20 years ago Italy also changed its approach to drugs through a referendum of the Radical Party.
But in 2006, (center-right MPs) Fini and Giovanardi used doping in the Olympic Games as an excuse
to crack down and get tough again on drugs.
So what do we do now?
We make a change!
With a new referendum that would depenalise: possession,
consumption,
and cultivation.
The goal of the proposal is to regulate drugs.
Help us change the law. Visit www.cambiamonoi.it,
please sign and tell others to sign the new Radical referendum.