Italy: the maximum quantities that will pass, are 500 mg of cannabis or 750 mg of cocaine,

 The Berlusconi government wants to slam kids in gaol for having fifteen joints on them — cause for great alarm that Radicali Italiani Secretary Daniele Capezzone is trying to bring home to parents: ‘You may be unhappy about your son or daughter turning on, but it’s certainly worse for you to think that he/she is facing up to six years in a hard prison.’
 Marco Cappato says clearly and often what all thinking citizens know: ‘The new law is yet another gift to the Mafia and to organised crime generally’. As a parliamentary candidate of the left-of-centre Rosa nel Pugno (Rose in the Fist) party, he is pledged to fight all forms of prohibitionism.
 ‘There is now no legal distinction between heavy and light drugs . . . the government, in their opportunism and superficiality, are committing semantic and scientific crimes’ — thus Ignazio Marcozzi Rozzi, President of Rome’s Agency for the aid of drug addicts, and Rita Bernardini, Radicali Italiani Treasurer. ‘To get a tight grip on the problem’, they go on, ‘to defeat the drug mafias, the first essential is a programme of antiprohibitionism based on a sharp distinction between cannabis on one hand and cocaine, heroin and more on the other. Legalising cannabis and establishing well-organised, medically supervised therapeutic facilities to deal with the effects of the others are the first steps in damage reduction’.
 FUORILUOGO (‘Out of Place’), an association of concerned citizens, ha launched an appeal for antiprohibitionism aimed at the candidates in the upcoming 9th-10th April elections. Many Rosa nel Pugno candidates go along willingly, first among them LIA Secretary Marco Perduca and colleagues and collaborators Luca Coscioni and Marco Cappato.

Sign the appeal for an Anti-prohibitionist Reform of the UN Conventions on Drugs

Transnational Radical Partyand the International Antiprohibitionst League

‘PEACE ON DRUGS — E ORA PACE!’

http://www.fuoriluogo.it/eng/index.htm