ROME – “I don’t aim to transform our wheat fieldsand our crops into fields of light cannabis, in fact I think we can survive without it. Have I ever wanted to try it? No , light no. If you have to make a joint, do it well. No?” Thus the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida responded last Saturday in Piazza del Popolo in Rome, on the sidelines of the closing rally of the Fratelli d’Italia electoral campaign for the European elections, to the journalist of the La7 program L’Aria che Tira.
Words that have inevitably made the rounds on the web and are added to the list of ‘questionable’ statements made by the government representative. On the same day, Lollobrigida had gave a not very clear answer to a journalist from Piazza Pulita, talking about “outing”.