One week after its launch, the collection of signatures for the Referendum on legal cannabis has already reached the fateful quota of 500 thousand, a limit figure that will allow the question to be submitted to the vote of citizens in the spring of 2022.
And there is time until September 30 to fill in the number and to be safe from any signatures that could be invalidated by the Supreme Court. This is the first Italian signature collection that was held entirely online on the referendumcannabis.it website.
The initiative is promoted by the associations Luca Coscioni, Meglio Legale, Forum Droghe, Società della Ragione, Antigone and the Italian + Europa, Possible and Radical parties.
It is an "extraordinary but not surprising" result, the organizers underline, "for some time an intervention on the subject of cannabis was needed and with the digital signature in a few days the theme exploded".
And while some, above all Pippo Civati, underline the "deafening silence" of the Democratic Party on the subject, Emma Bonino speaks of an "extraordinary day, not only for the promoters but also for the citizens".
On a rampage Maurizio Gasparri: "It will not be 500 thousand signatures to stop our battle for life and against free drugs. The vast majority of Italians are well aware of the risks involved and will never support a crazy referendum. physical and mental health must always be inflexible, not have any kind of hesitation. We will speak to those who have emerged from the whirlpool of drugs, mothers and fathers who have lived through the tragedy of lost children ".
(Unioneonline / L)