Drug Tourism New Fight For Italian Tax Police

MILAN, Italy -- On a sunny Saturday on a highway surrounded by the lakes and mountains between Italy and Switzerland, a young man watched Italian tax police inspect his sleek motor scooter.

His cross-border jaunt into Europe's newest drug paradise came to an end when police discovered the first of five small pouches of top-grade marijuana.

"Any more than that, then he could be going to prison," said Loredano, a plainclothes border tax policeman. "Our dogs would have been all over him with that amount."

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