Hot topic, the mouth of many, always hot, which tends to be placed under different lights depending on the orientation of the government.
Sometimes considered extremely negative, like hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine, sometimes instead heralded for its pharmaceutical and therapeutic qualities .
Let's talk about cannabis. Recently the Superior Health Council has expressed itself on the subject of legalization of cannabis at the request of the Ministry of Health.
But what is the Superior Health Council? This is a scientific advisory body to the Ministry of Health addresses for technical opinions, or to which the judicial authorities are addressed as a sector advisory body in the event of disputes.
The negative opinion on cannabis light
Specifically, recently the Superior Health Council expressed itself on the legalization of cannabis by issuing a negative opinion and somewhat controversial and debated by various lawyers .
It is precisely the lawyers of many therapeutic cannabis producers who have set in motion to analyze the opinion of the Superior Health Council, deciding that as things now stand, it does not have a real power of veto on the commercialization of cannabis light.
THC parameters
Therefore, de facto the law on the sale and purchase does not change . It seems that the Superior Health Council has not considered the correct parameters established by the European Union regarding cannabis light and THC percentage thresholds: while in Europe it is considered that THC has no effects on the psyche up to a concentration of 0.5%, the Superior Council of Health has arbitrarily considered a threshold of 0.2%, contrary to what is established by scientific research carried out until now.
The reasons that have accompanied the opinion expressed by the Superior Council of Health can give way to a whirlwind of legal machinations that push in every single case the accusation and the defense to address to researchers of part who give battle in courtrooms with different results every time.
In practice until now, it must be said that the European parameters have been respected, with seizures only of materials with a THC concentration higher than 0.5% and return of the seized materials when this was lower than this threshold.
With all that positive, this involves: competition with the mafia and criminality, abatement of illegal material prices, increased revenue for the government thanks to taxation applied to producers and large investments made in the sector, reduction of annual capital exported every year in the Netherlands and other countries where cannabis use is legal and regulated.
On balance, therefore, it seems that the Superior Health Council has against not only the lawyers of light cannabis producers and even the new Minister of Health, but also common sense.
