IT was not magic, certainly not an illusion, but suddenly a paragraph vanished from the Health Law that had just been passed by the House of Representatives (DPR). This would be absurd and odd, and it is unlikely to happen in a nation with a solid legal system. This shameful incident shows the nerve of those who abuse their authority—perhaps in the interest of others.

It was paragraph 2 in Article 113 that vanished. It read: Addictive substanc