Most people who work in the marijuana industry tend to see red flags when military gets involved.
However not for Italy. Italy’s first medical harvest cultivated by Italy’s military is “coming along nicely,” stated from officials at a greenhouse outside of Florence that is funded by the government.
“The aim of the operation is to provide users with a product that is not always easily available on the market, at a more competitive price,” Colonel Antonio Medica said Italian daily Corriere Della Sera.
Medical cannabis has been legalized in Italy since back in 2013 as a source of pain relief. Yet there have been no licensed producers, and the state will not provide payment for treatment, people who have prescriptions have gone through the process of buying marijuana abroad, from Germany and the Netherlands, at a markup that sees about 40 euros which would translate into $45 per gram in American money.
This means various patients have plainly purchasing their marijuana from off the street, spending money with drug dealers who don’t pay taxes and possibly are involved it other illegal crimes “We’re aiming to lower the price to under 15 euros ($17), maybe even around 5 euros ($5.60) per gram,’ stated Medica, who pointed out that this would be similar to the black market price of marijuana.
The Italian government made a choice to use a military testing facility due to security equipment that was previously set up.
While the new advancements will help medicinal marijuana users, they’re not typically to undermine the illegal cannabis market in region where one out of five people confessed to smoking pot from a survey back in 2012
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