Italy is home to one of the most inspiring cannabis activism efforts of all time. Last year activists in Italy gathered enough signatures to put national legalization before voters. Over 630,000 signatures were gathered in just a matter of weeks. The signatures were gathered so quickly and abundantly...

In a blow to forward reform in Italy, the Supreme Court blocks request to hold a referendum on the legalization of cannabis cultivation Cannabis reform may be coming to Europe in ever more advanced ways, but it still does not mean that the forces against it are giving way en masse. Indeed, in every...

The European country is struggling to create regulations and guidelines for home grow after Italy’s top court decriminalized cannabis in late December 2019 In a sign that Covid might have slowed but cannot indefinitely delay the progress of cannabis legalization across the continent, and even...

Italy’s Supreme Court has ruled that cultivating cannabis for personal use is not illegal. Italy’s current cannabis prohibition policies were first enacted in the 1990s. In its ruling, Italy’s Court determined that the crime of cultivating cannabis should exclude “small amounts...