A coalition of Italian cannabis organizations has unveiled a wide-ranging strategy to resist the government’s ban on hemp flowers, calling it unconstitutional, economically destructive, and contrary to EU law.
The coordinated response comes after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s administration bypassed Parliament last week to enact a “Security Decree” that instantly reclassified industrial hemp flowers — regardless of THC content — as narcotics, effectively outlawing their cultivation, sale, and possession and essentially banning non-psychoactive cannabinoids like CBD, CBG, and CBN..
Industry advocates say the abrupt move threatens up to 30,000 jobs and imperils more than 3,000 businesses in a market worth nearly €2 billion.
In a joint statement, leading hemp associations including Canapa Sativa Italia Association, Sardinia Cannabis Association, Resilienza Italia Onlus Association, and Canapa Italia Entrepreneurs Association, said “the Security Decree represents a serious and immediate threat to all of us; however, we are moving together on every legal and institutional front to challenge its validity, constitutional legitimacy and consistency with EU law.”
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