Implicazioni Criminologiche della Regolamentazione del Mercato della Cannabis in Italia

[Autom. eng. transl.] In the decade 2010-2020, Uruguay, Canada and the United States have adopted different forms of legalization of the cannabis market. In light of this, even in Italy the legalization of cannabis is invoked as a policy capable of contributing to the efficiency of the criminal system, to the fight against organized crime and, more generally, to the reduction of crimes. The analysis of the functioning of the cannabis market and of the literature on the subject suggest that the opening of a legal market for this substance would lead to a reduction in the burden for the justice system, the extent and duration of which are however difficult to estimate today. precisely. The impact on mafia groups would likely be limited; the reduction of violence and appropriative crimes probably negligible. However, since legalization is not actually a binary option and its implications depend on the specific rules and administrative actions adopted to regulate the market, it is desirable to develop new studies that analyze the consequences of the various regulatory options considering the specificities of the market. Italian context.