Tuscan regional MP to plant cannabis

(ANSA) - Florence, July 6 - Left-wing Tuscany regional councillor Tommaso Fattori said Monday he will grow a cannabis plant in his office "to open a discussion" on the legalisation of cannabis and support its "therapeutic use" as envisaged under a regional law approved in 2012.
    "In Italy, we are further behind than in the rest of the civilized world where anti-prohibitionism goes forward and the first step is the therapeutic use of cannabis," said Fattori.
    "We will make this a central point to make the Tuscan law effective".
    "I have decided to take a seed and plant it, from next week, in a vase on my desk in the Regional Council," he said.
    Fattoris added that he knew he would be breaking the law "but I want to do it in the name of a battle for civilisation".