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Italy: Cannabis cultivation increases 'vertiginously': Overall drug consumption on the wane

Gazetta del Sud

Thursday 15 Nov 2012

Overall drug consumption on the wane.

he illegal cultivation of cannabis in Italy has "increased vertiginously" even as overall drug consumption has fallen, the head of Italy's anti-drug department said on Thursday. Seizures of illegal marijuana crops have risen by 1,290%, according to Giovanni Serpelloni. The national anti-drug chief added that drug consumption "has generally been falling for several years, albeit by varying amounts, particularly with respect to certain substances which thankfully are used little in Italy, such as ketamine and ecstasy" but that it is necessary to "maintain a high level of alert". To this end the fight against drug trafficking, distribution and illegal cannabis cultivation must be kept up and intensified and efforts stepped up to monitor "the online distribution not only of narcotics but also of counterfeit pharmaceuticals which are often taken at the same time as drugs particularly by young internet surfers", Serpelloni said. The EU Observatory for drugs and drug addiction said on Thursday in its 2012 report that the continent was becoming a major producer of cannabis and that the drug is consumed by 1% of adults in Europe every day.

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