A-Infos (en) Italy, Umanita Nova #14-25 - Anti-cannabis decrees. The fascists' eternal war against forbidden grass continues (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The philosophy of 'move fast and break things' that inspires the new 
digital capitalism of Silicon Valley - from the 1980s with Apple's 
user-friendly computers built in the basement, up to the chain 
development of Artificial Intelligence today - is certainly one of the 
keys to understanding the actions of the new Trump administration, which 
not coincidentally inaugurated his second presidency surrounded by the 
new digital oligarchs who, thanks to tax exemptions and government 
contracts, have become the richest men in the world. Regardless of the 
orders of the federal courts and the provisions of the Supreme Court 
itself (which is composed of six Republican judges out of nine), Trump 
continues to deport immigrants (including dozens of children born in the 
US and US citizens), closes federal agencies established by Congress, 
cuts funding to schools and universities, transforms scientific and 
cultural institutions into regime megaphones, awaiting the clash with 
the States that will probably come soon and that will transform the 
United States forever (where in any case, while the consensus of the 
gangster in chief plummets, demonstrations against his policies in the 
last month have gathered millions of people, with numbers that are 
rising week after week).

The philosophy of 'move fast and break things' evidently also inspired 
Giorgia Meloni when at the beginning of April she decided to transform 
bill 1660, better known as the Security Package, now almost at the end 
of its parliamentary process, into a decree law. The initial bill, 
approved by the Chamber in record time at the beginning of autumn, 
thanks to the growth of protests against the "fascist" law and 
criticisms also at an international level, had been in the Senate for a 
few months in second reading, waiting to be approved perhaps at the 
beginning of the summer. The protests had even pushed Mattarella to have 
the Quirinale legal offices send the government some critical points - 
which the majority had to correct - in relation to the "tightening" on 
detained mothers and the ban on irregular migrants from holding 
telephone "SIM cards". Thus, however, the bill has become a decree and 
its provisions, which concern various areas (from prison to 
demonstrations, to light cannabis and the secret services), have already 
come into force, while Parliament still has just under two months to 
convert the decree into law.

The rush to "break things" could, however, complicate things for the 
Meloni Government. Precisely the transformation into a decree law, in an 
appeal by over two hundred jurists recently released, has been defined 
as "the first of the very serious profiles of unconstitutionality" of 
the decree, a "real wound caused to the legislative function of the 
Chambers, through a blatant coup d'état without there being any 
extraordinary nature, nor any real prerequisite of necessity and 
urgency, as the Constitution requires"; and already in Foggia, a few 
days after the entry into force of the new rules, it was the Public 
Prosecutor's Office that asked the Court to raise the constitutional 
legitimacy in the case of some defendants called to answer for resisting 
a public official and personal injury against two police officers. 
Another of the rules contained in the Coup Deed that risks ruining the 
plans of the Meloni Gang is the one on light cannabis, which ended up 
inside for reasons that escape any rationality other than the 
liberticidal fury of fascists and members of the Northern League. While 
on the one hand it is understandable that an unpopular government (with 
60% of the seats in Parliament only thanks to the unfortunate 
majoritarian electoral law that assigned them to it with 43% of the 
votes) and good only for doing dirty things while hiding behind 
victimhood, needs rules against demonstrations and protests to defend 
itself from the anger that will certainly come, it is more difficult to 
understand why light cannabis, without THC, whose trade is regulated by 
European regulations, ended up within these rules. All the farmers' 
organizations (including Coldiretti which is the one closest to the 
right) had protested against the rules against hemp which is one of the 
growing sectors of national agriculture. On Friday 26 April, even the 
Agriculture Commission of the Conference of the Regions (which also 
includes the 14 right-wing regions) unanimously approved a motion asking 
the government to make heavy changes (if not eliminate altogether) to 
art. 18 which outlaws the cultivation, processing and sale of low-THC 
hemp inflorescences, affecting "a sector which includes 3 thousand 
companies and 30 thousand employees". A few days earlier, however, the 
European Commission had responded to an email from a cannabis 
association "saying that, since the government has not reported to Tris 
(the European body that deals with the "prevention of technical barriers 
to trade"), we can go to an ordinary court and ask that the law be 
disapplied". The result is that, for now, a few weeks after the decree 
came into force, cannabis shops continue to be open, there is no news of 
complaints and seizures and light cannabis continues to be displayed for 
sale even by tobacconists.

The most optimistic think that the law could somehow be withdrawn both 
due to technical difficulties and to weaken the mobilization against the 
Security Decree that is spreading in various cities and that will 
culminate in the national demonstration on May 31.
What is certain is that the anti-cannabis fury knows no bounds, as 
demonstrated by the story of the so-called "New Highway Code", which 
came into force in December as a decree law. To legitimize the 
"emergency", on that occasion Minister Salvini justified himself with 
the increase in deaths from road accidents among pedestrians and 
cyclists. The increase in deaths on the asphalt of pedestrians and 
cyclists is due, however, to the fact that urban roads in these same 
years have seen an increase in the circulation of heavy vehicles such as 
SUVs and trucks for the delivery of online shopping, which, due to their 
weight, cause more damage to their victims. However, in the "new Code" 
there is no trace of limitations on heavy vehicles on urban roads, much 
less of rules to protect pedestrians and cyclists (indeed... for 
example, the establishment of new cycle paths is made much more 
difficult). There are, however, new rules that affect those who find 
themselves behind the wheel after having taken prohibited substances, 
which establish that a positive test (which is not well specified) is 
enough to configure criminal liability, even if there was no sign of 
psychophysical alteration at the time of the fact. The government has in 
fact eliminated any reference to the "altered state", which in the old 
regulatory system was an essential condition for contesting driving 
under the influence of drugs. Now, however, the possible presence of 
traces of narcotic or psychotropic substances - even after several days 
- is sufficient to trigger sanctions that can reach up to 6,000 euros in 
fines, one year of arrest and two years of suspension of the license. To 
be clear: THC remains in the blood for up to 7 days in occasional users 
and up to 3 weeks in regular users, in saliva for up to 72 hours with a 
single intake and up to 8 days in regular users, in urine it can remain 
up to 60 days. This decision was also referred to the Constitutional 
Court by the Court of Pordenone after the case of a woman who tested 
positive for opiates for having taken codeine for therapeutic purposes 
in the previous days. The judges suspended the judgment and referred the 
matter to the Constitutional Court because by eliminating the 
requirement of psychophysical alteration, "the crime of driving under 
the influence of drugs has been transformed from a crime of concrete 
danger to a crime of abstract danger" (for which such severe sanctions 
could not be foreseen), in which it is no longer necessary to prove that 
the intake has affected the ability to drive the vehicle. The new rule 
wanted by the government was also justified by the fact that drivers who 
tested positive, in most cases, were not sanctioned because they were 
found by subsequent medical visits to be "not in a state of 
psychophysical alteration" and therefore ... able to drive!

The new anti-drug laws (also for the technical-legal quackery with which 
they were made) are further proof of the profound sadism that animates 
fascists and members of the Northern League, bearers of nefarious 
ideologies that Erich Fromm summarized in the greed for human suffering. 
Today more than ever, for us "it is time to organize ourselves".

Robertino

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