Italian army grows marijuana – level 1

20-10-2014 07:00

This news is from Italy. Doctors there can prescribe marijuana to people. It can help many patients. However, only a few people want the marijuana. It is expensive. It costs 38 euros.

Italy wants to make the drug cheaper. It tells the army to grow it. The price of marijuana is going to halve.

Difficult words: prescribe (to let people buy a medicine), patient (a person who is at the doctor’s office), halve (to be reduced to 50%).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

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