MODENA. Seeing him sitting next to three guys in their thirties while one of them prepares a joint or inside the museum of cannabis Of Berlin, we admit, it has a certain effect. But he himself states the following: «If the German experiment shows that cannabis consumption remains the same and does not increase, we will take it into consideration. I’m not a Bolshevik, I’m a Christian Democrat and the Christian Democrats have always dialogued with everyone.”
THE TRIP TO GERMANY
The “Christian Democrat” is the Honorable Modena Carlo Giovanardi who, accompanied by the Hyenas, took a flight from Linate towards Berlin to carry out an investigation on the legalization of cannabis: Germany, in fact, recently approved a new law that decriminalizes recreational marijuana. Between a beer at the airport, which provided the assistance to the hyena Gaston Zama to press the former senator on the alcohol-drug relationship, and a road crossed at a red light, Giovanardi arrives in the German capital. Waiting for him are characters who, on paper, are light years away from him – they are all cannabis users – but with whom, during the episode aired on Tuesday evening, he will have a more or less heated confrontation. The first “case” concerns the number of consumers in Italy: Giovanardi claims that it is “three percent of the population”, while the director of the Cannabis museum points out that, given the data, it is at least eight percent.
THE COMPARISON
The MP doesn’t like it and so he takes out his phone and, after a series of calls to “those who make the reports”, he manages to admit his mistake. With the director of the Museum, Mr. Steffen – who had also tried, in vain, to offer him his joint – things do not improve when Giovanardi gives the example of road homicide, related to the use of drugs: «If one gets of cannabis and with cars killing people is a problem that Italy has solved with road homicide.” To then explain that, according to him, there is a direct connection between consumption and the prosecutable act. As the episode continues, he insists that “by legalizing cannabis, consumption would increase” and that marijuana “is the gateway to the consumption of other drugs.” He is thus shown some data, for example that of an American study, which would once again disprove his thoughts, but he continues on his path: «These are things that are neither in heaven nor on earth. In America they have decided to live with a situation that is getting out of hand.”
SHY OPENING
Only towards the end of the report does Giovanardi unexpectedly say he is ready to retrace his steps: “If consumption doesn’t increase in Germany, this experiment could also be taken into consideration in Italy.” Words that, if they had not been recorded, we would struggle to believe.
