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Recreational molly is still illegal in Australia, manufactured or imported by crime syndicates like the ‘Ndrangheta, mafia clans from southern Italy who made their riches in Australia’s drug game by growing weed in the Outback. In 2016, Pasquale Barbaro, the scion of a mob family behind a plot to smuggle a whopping 15 million ecstasy pills weighing 4.4 tonnes hidden in tins of peeled tomatoes, was gunned down by a biker gang while leaving a friends’ house in Sydney.

Invited to tour a company factory in Tuscany by Pasquale Petti, the General Manager of Italian Food, part of the Petti group, our reporter asked him if Petti used Chinese tomatoes.

A week after Bruins receiver Nick Pasquale died upon being hit by a car, the Cornhuskers wore a sticker bearing Pasquale’s No. 36 on their helmets, observed a moment of silence and released hundreds of blue and gold balloons before the teams played at Memorial Stadium.

“You know, I’m sure the Pasquale family liked what they saw and, you know, it was just good to see a fan base just take pride in trying to comfort the other team that came in. So, you know, I appreciated it at that time.”

It’s the smallest of parts in the closing moments of Don Pasquale but then Bridget is the smallest of dogs - a chihuahua.