Is Italy Slowly Breaking Away from Cannabis Prohibition?
While the government continues slowly considering progress, some are taking Italy’s cannabis future into their own hands.
Anyone who has ever spent time in Italy knows that the country has some of the most draconian drug laws in the western world. When I studied abroad in Florence, for example, it took nearly a month to find anything to smoke.
After loitering in every town square and asking every bartender in both English and my school Italian where some hash (flowers are largely unfindable for tourists in Europe) could be found, but no one seemed willing to help an unproven Americano find “drugs.” Finally, after four weeks, tumbling out of a bar at midnight, a Moroccan angel on a deliveryman’s bicycle rolled past and muttered the beautiful words: “Hashish hashish. You want? I have. Very good.”
He tried to make us go to an apartment, which we flatly refused despite his...
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