Vasco Rossi and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini are at odds over the new highway code, which came into force yesterday.
"Minister Matteo Salvini - says Blasco in a video on Instagram - has made it so for your own good that if you smoked a joint even a week before and are stopped you can be arrested immediately and your license will be withdrawn for three years. This is what Minister Salvini has decided to do for your own good" . "From today - he adds - even if you are driving lucid... lucid yes or lucid no. Arrest and suspension of the license for three years. For your own good. Out everywhere the new highway code. Instead of driving - the final comment - you could take the trains..."
Salvini's response was immediate: "I love Vasco Rossi as a singer, but all types of drugs are harmful. I would like him not to confront me, but the relatives of someone who died in a car accident involving someone who was driving under the influence of drugs." And again: "It's no laughing matter when we talk about alcohol and drugs, I hope to go to many more Vasco concerts, but it's a Highway Code whose sole objective is to save lives."
He also spoke about it again in a video link to Atreju from Milan: «This government has clear ideas: we are liberals, libertarians, everyone in life does what they want but any type of drug is death . And the drug-dealing State will not get anywhere with our government».
(Online Union)