DesertFox
02-03-2007, 03:57 PM
Italy is becoming a nation of cocaine users, according to a senior government minister.
Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said Italians are consuming a gigantic amount of cocaine because blue-collar workers and the middle class have joined the rich in snorting the white powder.
"There is a frightening demand for the drug," Amato told reporters on a recent trip to crime-ridden Naples.
"The phenomenon can't be fought by the authorities alone if it is a demand that comes from families, youths and adults -- that is, from across all segments of society."
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Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said Italians are consuming a gigantic amount of cocaine because blue-collar workers and the middle class have joined the rich in snorting the white powder.
"There is a frightening demand for the drug," Amato told reporters on a recent trip to crime-ridden Naples.
"The phenomenon can't be fought by the authorities alone if it is a demand that comes from families, youths and adults -- that is, from across all segments of society."
More (http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2007/02/02/cocaine-nation/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fs%2Fnm%2F200702 02%2Fhl_nm%2Fitaly_cocaine_dc&frame=true)