Italy: Italian Legislative Body Asks for Medical Marijuana

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DRCNet

The World Online

Friday 03 May 2002

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(http://www.drcnet.org/wol/235.html#lombardy)

On Monday, the Regional Council of Lombardy, Italy's most
important regional legislative assembly, passed a motion asking
"the Government and the Parliament to regulate the medical use of
cannabis and its derivatives." The move could draw Italy more
deeply into the ongoing international debate over medicinal uses
of cannabis.

Although the motion was presented by the Transnational Radical
Party/Bonino's list legislative bloc, it was also endorsed by a
broad spectrum of other parties, including Forza Italia (the party
of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi), the Christian Democrats, the
Italian Peoples' Party, the Retired Party, the Socialists, the
Greens and the Communist Refoundation Party.

Yasha Reibman, physician and Member of the Regional Council for
the Transnational Radical Party, released the follow statement
after the vote: "It is an historic decision, and thanks to this
vote we can continue to defend freedom of cure both for the
physicians and for the patients. Each physician should be allowed
to prescribe the cure and the medicines that he deems, according
to science and conscience, the most useful to the patients.
Thousands of patients need the regulation of the medical use of
cannabis to improve their quality of life."

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