Ron Strider
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Cannabis should be legalized across Europe to allow law-enforcement authorities to concentrate on more serious crimes than the trafficking of soft drugs, Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor says.
"This office reiterates ... the need to concentrate the state's crime-fighting resources on more serious and worrying phenomena," Franco Roberti wrote in the annual report of the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (DNA).
Roberti has long argued in favour of the reform. In 2015, he said cannabis consumption in Italy had become as widespread as drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco and it was "neither imaginable nor desirable" to use up more police resources to counter it.
In his latest report, he pointed to "the failure of prohibitionist policies," but stressed that the eventual legalization of soft drugs "should take place in a European framework involving a significant number of participant countries."
Drug trafficking is one of the core businesses of Italy's Mafia organizations, such as the Camorra from Naples, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and the 'Ndrangheta from Calabria, said to have "absolute supremacy" on cocaine smuggling into Europe.
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"This office reiterates ... the need to concentrate the state's crime-fighting resources on more serious and worrying phenomena," Franco Roberti wrote in the annual report of the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (DNA).
Roberti has long argued in favour of the reform. In 2015, he said cannabis consumption in Italy had become as widespread as drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco and it was "neither imaginable nor desirable" to use up more police resources to counter it.
In his latest report, he pointed to "the failure of prohibitionist policies," but stressed that the eventual legalization of soft drugs "should take place in a European framework involving a significant number of participant countries."
Drug trafficking is one of the core businesses of Italy's Mafia organizations, such as the Camorra from Naples, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and the 'Ndrangheta from Calabria, said to have "absolute supremacy" on cocaine smuggling into Europe.
News Moderator: Ron Strider 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Nocookies | The Australian
Author: Alvise Armellini
Contact: Nocookies | The Australian
Photo Credit: Matthew Staver
Website: Nocookies | The Australian
