What is the International Anti-Prohibitionist League (IAL)?
M.P: The League was born in the late 1980’s with expert politicians, advocates, and journalists to raise the issue of anti-prohibitionist politics atthe international level, as there were many working at national levels but not internationally. Even fewer were looking at what we considered to be the problem, which are the three UN Conventions on Narcotic and Psychotropic substances. So a lot of people gathered together at the chamber of deputies in Rome in 1989 and some of them came from all over the world, mainly Europe, America and some experts also from Latin America and they all agreed to work together to provide all activists around the world with a critique of these three UN Conventions. This was a legal analysis as well as a political analysis of these documents. Eventually in 1993; we produced possibly the first study of the UN texts, which was sent to several parliaments. In 1994/5, while some members had started to get active at the national level, the IAL started to have fun
