In this episode, we get into a topic that most people — including our friends Maggie and Bob — had no idea existed: the Vatican’s actual legal code on narcotics.Yes, there is legislation.Yes, it’s extremely strict.And no, stepping a few meters inside the Vatican walls does not place you in some incense-scented legal vacuum.

We’ll look at how the Holy See frames drug use as both a moral and social wound, why Pope Leo XIV has spoken so forcefully about the opioid crisis in the U.S., and how Vatican law (starting at Article 42) handles cultivation, trafficking, possession, and even abusive medical prescriptions.

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