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Italy: Taking Drugs Is A Crime, Fini's Bill Is Improved
www.AGI.it Thursday 13 Nov 2003 http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200311131908-1219-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia Today in Italy Special service by AGI on behalf of the Italian Prime Minister's office TAKING DRUGS IS A CRIME, FINI'S BILL APPROVED (AGI) - Rome, Italy, Nov. 13 - The cabinet unanimously approved Fini's anti-drug bill. Even personal use will become a crime and the distinction between soft and hard drugs will be eliminated: "so-called soft drugs - Fini states - do not exist; a "spliff" (and cannabis-based drugs in general), ten years ago had an active percentage of not more than 1.5 pct and today it can be as high as 15pct". The bill also describes how to authorise the sale, delivery and purchase of medicines containing drugs, according to rational and clear criteria, in order to prevent or repress abuses. According to the Government the State should not be indifferent to the spread of drugs and show that it disapproves even of the mere use of drugs "even though this does not automatically lead to penal consequences, like some have said during the past weeks". The consequences will in fact be different, based on the amount and the quality of the drugs, but also on the personal circumstances. The punishment for drugs possession is reintroduced and a limit has been established between drugs possession, which will be fined and drugs possession that will lead to a conviction. If someone has 500 mg for example this will lead to a fine (in the form of losing your driving licence, gun licence, passport etc.), if he has more than it the punishment will become penal. 131908 NOV 03
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