1. The CORA expressed its satisfaction for the fact that the PDS finally reached the CORA on the way to legalization in an official, albeit personal, statement by one of its officials. Shouldn't it, shouldn't I have done it? You are astonished because we welcome the fact that an initiative which belongs "historically" to the CORA becomes officially (also) of others? Sectarianism has never been a virtue of the radicals, dear Enzo.

2. Your say in the past we have had antiprohibitionist deputies and senators: couldn't they have advanced this proposal? They could have, had they loved gesticulation. They could have, had they loved positions of "splendid" minority. They could have, had they been interested in testimony rather than effectiveness. The CORA and I are little interested in collecting political defeats, also because we believe every defeat of ours translates into years of additional sufferance for the people we believe to represent. To date, the PDS has introduced no bill on the legalization of soft drugs. During the past legislature, one such bill had been introduced, with two signatories, and was dropped. This is why I'm asking the PDS to seek as much support as possible in Parliament for a draft bill representing the largest possible coalition. The antiprohibitionist intergroup, promoted by the CORA, already counts over 100 parliamentarians. Your interpretation ("someone else can do it, we are for the legalization of all drug

s") is mistaken.

3. According to you, I am wrong when I ask the PDS to "continue pondering the legalization of all drugs". In your opinion, this means isolating ourselves. To me it means practising concrete antiprohibitionism. I wonder how such a clear sentence could induce two profoundly different interpretations.

4. As far as the referendum is concerned, I have nothing to add to my political behaviour. Save one thing: urge those who offer me lessons of coherence with such generosity and constancy, to re-read some texts which I contributed in drafting, such as the Charter of commitments for the representatives in the regional or local councils, or the Minimum Program, which concludes the book by Manconi and other authors, "Legalizing drugs", or the final document of the committee of inquiry of the European Parliament on drug traffic in the E.C. All this can be found in Agorà.

Marco Taradash, Rome 3 July 1992