Galati Appeal p. 43 said:
The disagreement on the part of the Court with Curatolo’s life choices appears fully evident in reading pages 44 and 45 of the judgment. The formulation of a negative opinion due only to drug consumption appears evident only when one re-reads the transcript of the hearing of March 26, 2011. At the end of the examination of Curatolo, the Recorder [= Zanetti} posed questions to Curatolo about his choice to live as a homeless person and [54] in the end, asked the witness whether he used drugs, in particular in 2007.
It would be worthwhile quoting Curatolo's response: ‚I used heroin‛ (cf. the transcript p. 21).
For the Recorder, that could have been enough, but not for Curatolo, who concluded with decisive emphasis like this: ‚I should point out that heroin is not a hallucinogen‛.
What the witness stated is true: opioids normally do not have hallucinogenic effects. Among the hallucinogens, there are natural ones such as mescaline, psilocybin, THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), the active ingredient of the cannabinoids, and those artificial ones, such as LSD and ecstasy.
In conclusion, Curatolo is perfectly correct and extremely lucid: it is hashish, rather, that has effects of this type.
Opioids such as heroin cause, in fact, a rapid excitation, followed by a phase of sedation - relatively brief relaxation, after which the subject returns to near normal until the onset of a new phase of need of the substance.
