Impossible for pharmacies. State marijuana can not be found The hundred pounds grown in Florence are not enough. Disparities between the Regions, who decide on the mutual

It's too expensive for those who buy it, too cheap for those who sell it. So we are always sick. Behind medical prescription, cannabis can be purchased for therapeutic purposes in pharmacies, in the ASL and in hospitals. At least on paper you can choose from five different types of Holland-Bedrocan, Bediol, Bedica, Bedrobinol and Bedrolite - and Fm2, the only variety made in Italy. In Italy, the possibility of using cannabinoid drugs exists in fact since April 2007: in these ten years, however, few - patients could only use the products of Bedrocan, the company that produces inflorescences used throughout Europe as therapy, with prices that could even reach 50 euros per gram.The free way comes in 2014, with a protocol of intent between the Ministry of Defense and Health which has entrusted to the Istituto Farmaceutico Militare of Florence the production of cannabis therapeutic: among the objectives is also to avoid the costs of the export and ensure that raw material is always available. According to estimates of the Florentine Institute, the demand has gone from 20 kgs between 2014 and 2016 to over one hundred last year. It is not enough. As announced by the director of the Institute, Colonel Antonio Medica, new greenhouses have already been set up to reach 300 kilograms a year. Is it enough to meet the demands of ever-increasing number of patients? Difficult to know. "In November next year, the pilot phase of the Lorenzin Decree closed, the Ministry of Health will be able to give the first numbers - explains Marco Perduca, who follows the theme for the Luca Coscioni association. The problem is that not all regions communicate the number of recipes to the national database and not all physicians follow the provisions of the letter. Only in the Bari area, the patients are about three hundred. But the problem is that because of the lack of training of health care staff, we are still one tenth of the potential requirements, which are constantly increasing. "

National fare
In June, the Ministry of Health decided by decree the price of cannabis: the maximum cost must be between 8.50 and 9 euros per gram. "It is a necessary measure to standardize the expenses to which patients are subjected," says Pier Luigi Davolio, pharmacist and vice president of Sirca, Italian Society for Cannabis Research, "but with this fixed price pharmacies do not earn anything. That's why for the sick it is increasingly difficult to find cannabis, which is no longer suitable. Only hospitals remain, but regional legislative diversity makes the situation of the patients very complex. "

From Region and Region
The only virtuous case is Trentino Alto Adige, which with regional resolution has raised the price of therapeutic cannabis to 12 euros per gram, leaving a margin of gain to pharmacies. It is then up to the Regions to decide which pathologies fall into free distribution and which ones are not. "National law was clear, with palettes designed to prevent abuse and ease its use," continues Davolio. But mortgages are the responsibility of the Regions and not the State, with all the inconsistencies and disparities that result from it. "