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Latest News Italian Army Grows Marijuana
This news is from Italy. Doctors there can prescribe marijuana to
people. It can help many patients. However, only a few people want the
marijuana. It is expensive. It costs 38 euros.
Italy wants to make the drug cheaper. It tells the army to grow it. The price of marijuana is going to halve.
Difficult words: prescribe (to let people buy a medicine), patient (a
person who is at the doctor’s office), halve (to be reduced to 50%).
Italy legalised marijuana for medicinal purposes last year. Doctors
already can prescribe cannabis to relieve pain, nausea and other
illnesses, but it does not interest very many people.
This is mainly because of the stigma marijuana has in Catholic Italy. It
is also not very cheap. It costs 38 euros. However, this is going to
change. Italy is going to use its army to produce the drug at lower
costs. Marijuana is going to cost half the money that it costs now.
Difficult words: cannabis (a scientific name for marijuana), nausea (a feeling of sickness), stigma (loss of respect).
Article Italian army grows marijuana
Last year, Italy legalised marijuana for medicinal purposes and now the
country is drafting in the army to make cheaper batches of the drug.
Not many patients initially signed up when the drug was legalised,
largely because of the stigma it has in Catholic Italy and the cost.
Though Italian doctors can already prescribe cannabis to relieve pain,
nausea and treat symptoms of illnesses like multiple sclerosis, only a
few dozen patients actually paid the almost 38 euros.
But by using the army to produce the drug, the country's health minister hopes it will halve the cost.
“The aim obviously is to reduce the cost. That’s the motive behind of
what we’re doing. We believe we can become self-sufficient and more than
just halve the production costs and thus, eventually, also reduce
administration costs.”
Starting next year, a high-security lab in a military compound in Florence will produce cannabis for Italy's healthcare system.
Difficult words: legalise (make something illegal be legal), draft in
(to bring somebody into a team so they will do something), batch (a
quantity of goods produced at one time), initially (in the beginning),
stigma (loss of respect), cannabis (a scientific name for marijuana),
nausea (a feeling of sickness), multiple sclerosis (a serious illness
which makes it difficult to move, speak and see), thus (as a result of
this), compound (many buildings in an enclosed area).
