Italy's logic is simple: in this country, medical marijuana is legal. It is prescribed for pain relief to patients with cancer or multiple sclerosis.
The country has decided that it needs a reliable source of raw cannabis in order to make the medical product. Who better to grow it - and guard it - than the army?
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In September 2014, the government turned to the army's medical pharmaceutical plant, which has a long history of making medicine.
"The cannabis project has three main goals," said Col Medica, the plant's director: "To produce pharmaceutical-grade cannabis for therapeutic use; to keep down the cost of the final product; and most importantly, to guarantee its availability to patients in Italy.
