Medicinal cannabis: Italy's state-approved drug baron shares all

Col Antonio Medica is a state-affirmed tranquilize aristocrat. At the dauntingly named Military Pharmaceutical Plant in Florence, the colonel grows 100kg (220lb) of cannabis a year.

The harvest itself is monitored in the profundities of the plant by a progression of bolted entryways. All guests must wear defensive dress and face covers.

Simply inside a last overwhelming entryway, a line of tape on the ground cautions guests not to go in any further. Past the line, a few dozen lines of cannabis plants are flanked by lights and fans.

Italy's rationale is basic: in this nation, therapeutic cannabis is legitimate. It is recommended for agony alleviation to patients with malignancy or different sclerosis.

The nation has concluded that it needs a dependable wellspring of crude cannabis with a specific end goal to make the medicinal item. Who better to develop it - and monitor it - than the armed force?

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It is marginally bizarre to see a cannabis edit, ordinarily the objective of government activity, being tended to by the state itself.

"[When the venture started in 2014] we weren't acquainted with the development of this product," the colonel concedes.

Italy says it needs a dependable wellspring of crude cannabis keeping in mind the end goal to make medicinal weed, which is legitimate

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Italy says it needs a dependable wellspring of crude cannabis keeping in mind the end goal to make medicinal weed

Be that as it may, the armed force rapidly got the hang of it. One trooper checks the plants with an amplifying glass. He wears a shirt with the official title "Ace Grower" (a vocation title which must get a significant reaction at gatherings).

In September 2014, the administration swung to the armed force's restorative pharmaceutical plant, which has a long history of making drug.

"The cannabis extend has three principle objectives," said Col Medica, the plant's chief: "To create pharmaceutical-review cannabis for helpful use; to keep down the cost of the last item; and in particular, to ensure its accessibility to patients in Italy.

"We need to underline a genuine distinction between this sort of cannabis and the road cannabis," he includes.

How is the cannabis dispersed?

The armed force sends its completed item to drug stores the nation over.

On 4 January 2017, the Madonnone physicists in Florence started offering the armed force's item. This drug store used to need to depend on imported restorative maryjane on unique permit from the Netherlands. It was an exorbitant procedure.