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Drugs at the Vatican
Francis X. Rocca
January 16, 2008

Turns out that the crowds queuing up to see St. Peter’s Basilica and the Sistine Chapel aren’t the only lines in Vatican City.

A judge in the world’s smallest sovereign country has called for the enactment of drug laws there, citing the case of a Vatican employee who was convicted last year of possessing 87 grams of cocaine, but received a sentence of only six months on other charges.

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