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@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +# Italy audit: 2019 cannabis-light derivatives ruling added + +Research checked on 26 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md`, the +`italy-home-growing-2019` and `italy-hemp-flower-ban-2025` entries with the +profile, and the Wikipedia "Cannabis in Italy" legal history as a lead +list before editing. One missing history item added; no scores, profiles +or other timelines changed. + +## Audit result + +Wikipedia's dated legal events against the database: 1923 first law and +schedule, 1934 decree, 1954 law, 1975 modest quantity, 1976 confinement +case, 1980/1981 referendum validation, 1982 constitutional ruling, 1988 +import ruling, 1990 criminalisation, 1993 referendum, 1998 prescribing, +2006 Fini-Giovanardi, 2007 decree, 2008 United Sections cultivation and +Rastafari rulings, 2009 seed-food circular, 2012 seeds ruling, 2012 +Tuscany law, 2013 medical/Sativex/regional rulings/patient club, +2013 indica-sativa trade, 2014 constitutional court and resentencing, +2016 hemp law, 2017 army cannabis, 2019 home growing, 2021 initiative, +2022 referendum block, 2023 decree annulment, 2025 flower ban — all +present. The 2016 political debate and 2019 CAE report are debate-grade +without new legal content; not added. + +## What changed + +- Added `italy-cannabis-light-derivatives-ruling-2019` (2019-05-30, + tightening, court/hemp, unscored context): the Court of Cassation ruled + en banc that selling leaves, flowers, oil and resin from industrial + hemp falls outside Law 242/2016 and is an offence unless devoid of + narcotic effect. Information note 30 May 2019; judgment 30475 filed + 10 July. Mirrors the unscored treatment of the 2025 hemp-flower ban. + +## Sources actually read + +- IDPC (via EMCDDA), "Italy and Sweden: court decisions on low-THC + cannabis products", 1 August 2019: 30 May 2019 information note after + prosecutions of openly trading shops; Law 242/2016's exhaustive product + list; offence unless devoid of narcotic effects. +- ADVANT Nctm, "Cannabis, even if light, is illegal", 2 August 2019: + Criminal Supreme Court en banc, judgment No. 30475, filed 10 July 2019. + +## Not done here + +- France 1991 MLC case and 1999 ATU sentence remain uncorroborated leads + (see Wikipedia cross-check note); Germany's 1994/1998 dronabinol + rescheduling likewise rests on Wikipedia alone. + +## Validation and tree note + +- Chain `it`: unchanged through 2019-12-19 23→26, 0 flagged steps; the + new entry is unscored hemp-market context like the 2025 ban. +- `npm run history:test`: 40 pass, 0 fail. `npm run answers:test`: 40 + pass, 0 fail. Production build: 4,358 pages, complete. +- Commit stages only the new entry hunk plus this note, via patch + filtering. Foreign work in the shared tree is excluded and preserved.