"There are no soft drugs."
Word of
Massimo Gandolfini
,
neurosurgeon and psychiatrist, leader of the Family Day, exponent of the Movement for life, convinced anti-gender and now a consultant to the government's anti-drug department.
Gandolfini claims the appointment, "I was chosen for my professional competence and my scientific career: I am a neurosurgeon and psychiatrist and for years I have been interested in the impact that drugs have on the central nervous system and on the body", and also his opposition to the legalization of cannabis "because from a scientific-toxicological point of view there are no soft drugs".
And he already has a "political" path in mind for his new job.
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My action will move on three fronts
- he explains without hesitation -
the unconditional fight against drugs, widespread information in schools, the prevention and, where necessary, the repression of drug trafficking
". Gandolfini says he has "accumulated a lot of experience in the field.
I have noticed that there is a great climate of collaboration between the leaders of the various therapeutic communities and institutions, from ministries to government to the police force.
We are listening to the proposals and needs of those who deal daily with these poor young and very young people who have fallen into the spiral of drug addiction and we will take advantage of them". On cannabis shops, he reiterates his opposition but also underlines that "now this is not a priority ". A precise choice of the Meloni government to appoint Gandolfini, a decisive change of pace compared to the Conte government where the minister Fabiana Dadone, who had the delegation to the
In November 2021 he convened the National Conference on Addiction, 12 years after the last one, and also on that occasion he opened the door to the legalization of soft drugs.
What made Gandolfini known to the news was above all the success of the Family day which was held in Verona in 2016: afterwards, many imagined a role in politics for him.
Even before the last elections of 2022, the hypothesis of a candidacy among the ranks of the center-right had made its way, which however did not materialize.
Today, the government is in charge of one of the issues that the conservative exponent, who has always sided with the traditional family, has most at heart.