Meloni cracks down on Mussolini's crop: hemp

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : But in 2016, Rome legalised the cultivation of industrial hemp, as the EU promoted the plant as an environment-friendly material especially in the building sector.
53% : "Rocchetti, 30, persuaded his initially reluctant parents to switch from roses and start growing more lucrative hemp in 2017, after Rome legalised cultivation of hemp varieties approved for production and use in the EU.
51% : Mussolini pushed to expand hemp cultivation during fascist rule in his drive to replace cotton textiles and achieve national self-reliance.
40% : Growers have also argued that the ban would simply kill businesses in Italy, which would quickly be replaced by others based in neighbouring EU countries from which Italian customers could order their products.
35% : Dubbed "cannabis light" in Italy, industrial hemp varieties that are legal in the country and the EU contain insignificant traces of the psychotropic substance THC present in high levels in recreational marijuana.

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