Douglas Andrew Willinger - Angelo Francois Mariani Coca Activism
Douglas Willinger and Ethan Nadelmann - 1992 DPF conference Mid 1986 - Became extremely concerned about Ronald Wilson Reagan's insane ratcheting up the socially destructive - mega continuing boondoggle 'drug war' April 1987 - purchased the book 'Cocaine- Its History Uses and Effects' by Richard Ashley, where I first read about Angelo Francois Mariani and his Vin Mariani created amidst the 1860s female Parisian opera performer culture , and found safe and effective in western Europe and North America . September-October 1987 - wrote the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Library Memorial Library about Mariani - Coca and received letter informing me of Chas Vermeulen Windsant in Amsterdam who got obsessed about the Mariani story, in spring 1978 , at about the 64th anniversary of Mariani's April 1, 1914 death in southern France. 1, April MCMXIV December 1987 - wrote letter to the Westchester Gannett newspapers about the banning of Coca and its perversion into concentrated coc...