Cannabis Advocates in Italy Down but Not Out After Disappointing UN Summit
The takeaway from April’s United Nations meetings on international drug policy, at least in Italy: We’re ready to culturally embrace cannabis and other recreational drugs, but we’re bureaucratically hamstrung when it comes to making it happen.
Marco Perduca, Italy’s permanent representative to the U.N. from the Radical Party, said that while many countries are calling for sensible policy and seeking to regulate and legalize cannabis, other countries continue to violate human rights in the suppression of the cannabis trade — and thus stymie progressive efforts worldwide.
“The result therefore represents a weakened consensus. The final 24-page document (summarizing the final agreed position of the entire U.N. delegation) contains a series of vague declarations of intent that marks a certain distance from past attitudes, but continues to focus on demand and supply reduction,” Perduca said.
Perduca spoke earlier this month at a gathering of Italy’s drug-reform activists in Florence earlier this...
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