WORLD
According to WHO, in many countries the use of amphetamines is bigger than Heroin and cocaine together. The use in many cases for medical reasons, but in certain regions there is also a hyper-consume allowed by physicians.
(CORRIERE DELLA SERA, 30/06)
ITALY
Max Meringhi, former champion of body building, has been incarcerated for having organized an international trade of steroids. "if you don't take them, you loose, there is not such a thing as a clean sport". he said.
(CORRIERE DELLA SERA 28/06)
GREAT BRITAIN
A research published by "Science" states that cannabis effects on brain are similar to those provoked by heroin and cocaine. Experiments were carried out on guinea pigs at the University of Cagliari, Italy, and at the Scripps Research Institute of La Jolla, California.
Tetrahydrocannabiol stimulates, like heroin, the production of dropamine.
(THE TIME 27/06)
HONG KONG
Hong Kong is no longer the cross-way of heroin trafficking, but the number of drug-addicts remains quite high (between 4000 and 4500). Authorities have launched an information campaign. Hong Kong remains an active center for money laundering.
(LIBERATION 30/06)
GREAT BRITAIN
Thanks to the big campaign against drunk-driving, British roads are the less dangerous of Europe, in 1996 less than 3500 victims. The police has reported an increase in incidents involving users of psychotropic substances.
(LE FIGARO 30/06)
ITALY
XTC is cheap and does not seem to be considered a "drug"; this is one of the reasons why youngsters are using it more and more, the Minister for Social Solidarity said during a hearing on narcotics at the Chamber of Deputies.
The conclusions of the Minister point out the fragmentation of the market and its consequent invisibility.
(CORRIERE DELLA SERA, IL MESSAGGERO, LA STAMPA 28/06)
US
The UN's annual report estimates in 400 USD billion the drug-trafficking, 8% of the worldly trade. The document points out the "centrist" organization of the machinery that uses cheap labor. The report also says that synthetic drugs are substituting natural ones.
(DIE PRESSE 26-27/06, EL PAIS, FINANCIAL TIMES, FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG, LE MONDE, NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG, SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG 27/06)
SOUTH-EAST ASIA
The labs of the golden triangle produce anphetamines such as XTC or Yaa baa. These drugs are made of stimulating substances (natural or synthetic ephedrine), used all over Southeastern Asia, by everybody no matter age or social status. In 1997 the market will reach 1 billion pills, in 1993 was 1 million.
(LE MONDE 03/07)
FRANCE
Jean-Pierre Galland, President of the "Circ Collectif d'information et de recherche cannabique" (Cannabis Information and Research Collective), and author of "Clandestine smoke" has been jailed for having organized a demonstration on June 1995, for the legalization of cannabis. Backed by the Greens, Mr. Galland asks for "a national debate on the prohibited drugs".
(LE FIGARO, LE MONDE, LIBERATION 02/07)
SWITZERLAND
Switzerland occupies the first place in the list of narcotics consumers. "1994/1997: Alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs in Switzerland", the report issued by the Ministry of Health, shows data, facts and trends. Tobacco addicts are 1 million people, 300,000 alcoholics and 30,000 drug-addicts.
(DIE PRESSE 26/06, NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG 27/06)
WORLD
For years the fashion business has spread the chic side of being addicts, now that one of the inventors of this style has died for overdose, his mother, backed by President Clinton that considers the fashion-biz responsible for the spread of drugs, launches severe accusations against that world. The most famous German stylist refuses these accusations: "Fashion, photography and art are the mirror of society, they only represent it" he said. "Responsibilities are political, Mr. Clinton takes the cause for the symptom".
(DER SPIEGEL 30/06)
GERMANY
The methadone policy applied by German Lands has failed. This is the conclusion of the representative of the umbrella organization that gathers drug-operators and the various presidia, and drug-addicts support groups. There is no "cause-effect relation between substitution, deaths by drugs and crime" affirms Jost Leune. There is a need of ad hoc individual programs for effective help.
(FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG 01/07)
THE NETHERLANDS
The Dutch Association of Cannabis vendors (BCD) wants to denounce ABN AMRO Bank, because it has decided to end any business relationship with BCD members. With this decision Coffeeshop owners will not be able to have bank accounts, with all the consequences that this will imply.
(DIE PRESSE 02/07)
GERMANY
Until recently, Eastern Germans have showed a prudent attitude toward drugs. The "FOCUS" Social Research Institute has noted that in the past months there has been a change among teenagers, less scared by illegal drugs.
(SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG 04/07)
SWITZERLAND
The Federal Governement drug-policy goes against the popular initiative called "youths without drugs". The government proposes: prevention, therapies, harm reduction, and repression. The Minister of Internal Affairs warned against the miraculous solution presented by the popular initiative. The chief of the national policy favors the repression of the trade and not the war against drug-addicts.
(NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG 03/07)
SWITZERLAND
The coordination for the cannabis market denounces that besides the production of legal derivatives of cannabis, Swiss buy 100 tons of hashish from the black market, this provokes a loss of 1,000 jobs and some 500 million Swiss Francs of tax elusion.
(NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG 03/07)
GERMANY
Hope for the opium-addicts, the fast detoxification under anesthesia (UROD = Ultra Rapid Opiate Detoxification) is being experimented in several German clinics. For some of them it's a big business.
(DER SPIEGEL 07/07)
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