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Italy overturns 'absurd' drug law equating marijuana and hard drugs

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By: RT.com, 02/14/2014

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(AFP Photo / Luis Robayo)

Italy’s constitutional court has overturned a controversial law equating cannabis with cocaine and heroin. The decision could see around 10,000 people released from the country’s overburdened jails. The court ruled the law was “illegitimate,” without elaborating further.

 

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Minor earthquakes ripple through central and southern Italy

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By: Theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com, 07/09/2013

July 9, 2013 – ROMA, IT (AKI) – Minor earthquakes shook several areas of central and southern Italy overnight, but there were no reports of casualties or damage to buildings. A magnitude 3.5 earthquake rocked the provinces of Massa Carrara and Lucca in Tuscany at 1.31 am, Italy’s national geophysics and vulcanology institute reported. Its epicentre was between the towns of Minucciano, Giuncugnano and Casola in Luniggiana.

 

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