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4 December, 1979 meeting of the Italian ADC in Rome. Father Redento Tignonsini of Brescia is on the far left of thespeakers table. Third from right is the Hon. Jolanda Lucarini of the Rome city council health committee, flanked by Prof.Muriel Mirak of Milan University and the European Labor Party, and Dr. Passalacqua of the Pharmacists' Association (laston right).Drug Coalition had been officiallyfounded in the United States, inSeptember of 1979. Only days later,on Oct. 5, the founding committeeof the Italian Anti-Drug Coalitionheld its first public meeting inMilan.The Italian ADC drew togetherthe conservative moral forces fromItaly's two largest parties, the ItalianCommunist Party (PCI), whichis based on the trade unions, andthe Catholic Christian DemocraticParty (DC). Former DC deputieslike Jolanda Lucarini, Catholicrepresentatives of the NationalAssociation of Pharmacists, likeDoctor Passalacqua, and Catholicpriests such as Don Redento Tignonsiniof the Archbishopric ofBrescia joined with POE representativesto form the founding committeeof what became known asthe "Coalizione Antidroga."In mass meetings in Rome andMilan held between October andDecmber, the newly formed coalitionmade Altissimo's bill theirThe ADC's Italian bumper sticker(roughly translated, "If you mustsmoke marijuana, it won't function,your banana") makes the pot lobbyhysterical.first target. In Milan, a city withmore than 20,000 heroin addicts ina population of 2 million, morethan a hundred participants in oneevent signed a telegram to Altissimodemanding a stop to the insanedrive to legalization.Altissimo was attacked by theDC official party paper, II Popolo,and even publicly scored by hisown deputy minister, ChristianDemocrat Orsini.Italy's other large party, theCommunist Party, (whose tradeunionbase is what Americanswould call 'conservative' and progress-oriented)continues to thisday to be split on the drug issue.One faction, particularly dominantin the PCI's youth movement, wasbehind Altissimo and today supportsthe marijuana decriminalizationbill before the national parliament.Another faction showedits vehement disagreement bypublishing an article against decrimon Sept. 5 that quoted fromthe book Dope, Inc.The group behind that articlethen invited Rosanna Impiccini,the Italian ADC's national coordinator,to address the party's nationalconference on drugs in Milan.Impiccini stressed that "thestruggle against drugs cannot justhit the simple smuggler: it mustbe an international fight againstthe banks, the distribution networksand the political structuresresponsible for the production,sale and propaganda in favor ofdrugs."As a result, Altissimo wasforced to appoint a special commissionof experts to judge hisJuly <strong>1980</strong> / War on Drugs 45
Italian Radical Party leader Marco Pannella at a "free marijuana" rally.Francesco Cossiga, the prime ministerfor drugs and terror.plan, who went to Great Britainwhere her6in is dispensed legallyby the government. They reportedback that it made the problemworse.Current fightAfter this public defeat, "Dope,Inc." reorganized its offensive at ahigher level. At the February nationalcongress of the ChristianDemocracy, the moderate grouparound former Premier Andreottithat had been collaborating withthe PCI against terrorism anddrugs was defeated. The factionthat won, dominated by Italy's oldnoble families, promptly set up analliance with the ultraleftist SocialistParty, which advocatesdrug liberalization and negotiationwith terrorists.Cossiga formed a second government,this time with a SocialistParty health minister. It was AldoAniasi, former mayor of Milan,under whose long tenure Milan becamea coVen of drug addiction.The Socialist Party has joinedwith the small but well financedRadical Party—a prodrug, gayrights group which Cossiga admittedto the parliamentary majority—insponsoring a bill to completelydestroy current antidruglegislation. It proposes not only todecriminalize marijuana but tostop prosecution of those who"proselytize" in favor of drugs.ADC election interventionThe Italian Anti-Drug Coalitionis now making drugs the mainissue of the June 8 regional elections,which have no direct effecton the national government butare being viewed by all as a signalof whether the unpopular Cossigaregime can last. The coalition hasa leaflet out in Milan informingvoters that two candidates, the SocialDemocrat Antonio Gaspari forcity council, and POE leader FiorellaOperto for regional council,have taken an uncompromisingstand against "Dope, Inc."If such candidates are successfulin the regional balloting—and thetens of thousands of ADC pamphletssold in Milan are evidencethey will be—then the Cossigagovernment known in the press asthe "call girl" government may bevery short lived.46 War on Drugs / July <strong>1980</strong>
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