Largest Police Union in Italy Announces Support for Legalizing Cannabis
Completely contrary to how police unions in the U.S. publicly feel about legalizing cannabis, Italy’s largest police union has announced their support for ending cannabis prohibition.
According to Felice Romani, a spokesperson for SIULP (Sindacato Italiano Unitario Lavoratori Polizia – or roughly translated to the Italian Police Workers Union), legalization would make cannabis safer by allowing for the monitoring of chemicals and pollutants. Romani says that legalization would also help combat widespread crime associated with cannabis black market.
The SIULP’s endorsement of legalization comes just a couple months after Italy’s top anti-mafia official endorsed legalizing cannabis as a means of combating the mafia and terrorism (both of which gain large portions of money from illegal cannabis sales).
Italy’s no stranger to cannabis, with their Army currently growing it as a means of reducing costs for patients, though it still remains entirely prohibited for those without a prescription from a physician.
Malcolm Kyle
Here is a list of 25 studies showing that cannabis/marijuana cures cancer, categorized by the type of cancers being cured in each study. Note that the consistent theme between them is that marijuana shrinks tumors and selectively targets cancer cells.
Cures Brain Cancer
http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v95/n2/abs/66032…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11479216
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/21/17/6475.abstra…
http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/308/3/838.ab…
http://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/10/1/90.abstra…
Cures Mouth and Throat Cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20516734
Cures Breast Cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20859676
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18025276
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21915267
http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/early/2006/0…
http://www.molecular-cancer.com/content/9/1/196
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22776349
http://www.pnas.org/content/95/14/8375.full.pdf+ht…
Cures Lung Cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22198381?dopt=Abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21097714?dopt=Abstract
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v27/n3/abs/12106…
Cures Uterine, Testicular, and Pancreatic Cancers
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/cannabi…
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/66/13/67…
Cures Prostate Cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12746841?dopt=Abstract
http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v101/n6/abs/6605…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339795/?tool=pubmed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22594963
Cures Colorectal Cancer
http://gut.bmj.com/content/54/12/1741.abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22231745
Cures Ovarian Cancer
http://www.aacrmeetingabstracts.org/cgi/content/abstract/2006/1/1084?maxtoshow&hits=80&RESULTFORMAT&fulltext=cannabinoid&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=560&resourcetype=HWCIT
Cures Blood Cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
James Bodie
The difference between American police attitudes and Italian police attitudes may lie in the spoils and who gets them. In America, police departments are able to confiscate everything and keep or sell the stuff. Legalization in the US stops the gravy train for local police, the DEA, for-profit prisons, etc.