WORLD
The UN Drug Control Programme Undersecretary General has presented in Rome the UN World Drug Report, in which is stated that drugs production and consumption are global issues. Drugs reach 10% of the world population particularly in developing countries. In 1994 the drug trafficking equaled textile products, 8% of the world trade.
(IL SOLE 24 ORE, LA STAMPA 15/07)
ITALY
The Italian Government together with the Association of Discos has launched a club-land campaign called "Prohibited not to know", the main target of the initiative is XTC. A sticker, and a record, with the phone of the "Drogatel" service, will posted on discos'restrooms doors.
(IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA, IL MESSAGGERO 10/07)
ITALY
The Minister of Justice, Mr. Flick, will present a bill that plans the establishment of penitentiary-villages to help drug addicts detainees. As an experiment a small community will be set at the Roman prison of Rebibbia and in other 10 minors penitentiaries.
(LA STAMPA 10/07)
VENEZUELA
The number of crack-addicts is increasing. Local dealers are paid with a percentage of drugs that they sell in schools and on the streets, spreading crack all over the country.
(FINANCIAL TIMES 10/07)
SPAIN
Mr. Santos Pascual Bikomo Nanguande, former Minister of Information of Equatorial Guinea. Has been arrested in Madrid, because suspected of being involved with an international criminal network of cocaine traders and immigrants smugglers.
(EL PAIS 10/07)
US
In 1986 the Congress established criteria to classify countries for their commitment in the war on drugs. The "Certification" has been a flop, because a unilateral attribution only provokes national reactions weakening the struggle against illicit trafficking. A Senator has proposed to freeze certifications for two years; the countries that produce drugs will be invited to join the US in an international struggle against trafficking and consumption.
(INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE 15/07))
GREAT BRITAIN
Five magistrates of Lancashire have expressed their fears about the alarming increase in the deaths by overdose from heroin and methadone. In recent years their courts have been involved in a doubled number of death-by-drugs cases. Victims are mainly male, between 18 and 35, unemployed and often with difficult families
(THE TIMES 15/07)
WORLD
Companies, writes a Mattel director, should collaborate with custom authorities to impede drug-dealers to use members of equipages in their illicit trafficking. They should use the so-called "expertise" method, now in use in the States, with which crew members should pack their bags in a standard way.
(INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE 16/07)
US
The trial against two Lithuanians, accused of having sold weapons to some Colombian drug-dealers, is at a crucial point. The Prosecutor has produced a series of documents from which a link between The Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg and the weapon trade emerges. The network includes Lithuania, Bulgaria and Russia.
(EL PAIS 15/07)
SWITZERLAND
The "Pilot Project of the Controlled Distribution of Heroin" carried out by the government
between 1994 and 1996, has given good results. An increase in the health condition of many patients has been noted, as well as a reintegration in the community and a decrease in drug-related criminal acts. Representatives of the Ministry of Health asks for and extension of the mandate.
(LA REPUBBLICA, SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG 11/07, NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG 12/07, DER SPIEGEL 14/07, FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG 17/07)
GERMANY
Two German Psychologists have studied for three years typology and consequences of XTC consumption. Through questionnaires and interviews 527 consumers of pills have given personal and XTC information. Data of the research go against common convictions: XTC consumers are left alone, just like all drug-addicts
(SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG 12/07)
GERMANY
In Baden Wuerttenberg in 1996, there has been 252 deaths by drugs, 88 of which were cannabis consumers as "drug to increase". with the expression "drug to increase" the police defines those substances with which the person is caught for the first time. The total number of criminal acts related to drugs is 27.183, 8% more than last year.
(FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG 12/07)
GERMANY
The Constitutional Court has stated that the possession of three grams of marijuana can be punished if the "danger for someone else" cannot be excluded. This is valid when an action induces imitation. With this decision the Court has rejected the objection of unconstitutionality raised by some representatives of Buendis90/Die Gruenen that favor the legalization of cannabis, recently condemned for a public demonstration.
(FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG, SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG 10/07)
SWITZERLAND
The Director of the Federal Office of Health has admitted that in the Helvetic Confederation the "drug question" is huge. The market is so big that only in Zurich some 200 hundred kilos of heroin circulate in search of consumers. During the last years, among young generations, there has been an increase in the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and XTC. The only possible way to deal with the enormous supply of drugs is prevention.
(NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG 09/07)
GREAT BRITAIN
The New Scientist has revealed that some legal medicines, like the anti-depression "Fluctin" or the anti-Aids "Rinotavir" can potentiate XTC effects leading to the death of the person.
(DER SPIEGEL 21/07)
ITALY
Two popular bills on the depenalization of consumption of any kind of drugs and for the legalization of "soft" drugs, have been proposed by 21 organizations (political parties, movements, NGOs). In order to present the two bills to the Italian Parliament the proposers should gather 50,000 signatures in six months.
(CORRIERE DELLA SERA, IL MESSAGGERO 18/07)
ISRAEL
Gaza - Recently, the government has sent some troops to defend the green houses of the settlers from Palestinians thieves that turned out to be interested the marijuana grown by Thai farmers employed by the settlers.
(IL MESSAGGERO 20/07)
MEXICO
Sonora State - Benjamin Flores Gonzales, 29, a journalist specialized in the activities of the drugs cartel, has been gunned. The local mobs have in this way restated their power.
(EL PAIS 18/07)
FRANCE
France refuses the distinction between soft and hard drugs. According to a recent poll, in this way seven million of French people should be considered criminals.
(L'EVENEMET DU JEUDI 23/07)
US
The Senate has rejected the proposal of getting rid of the "drugs certification" regarding the collaboration in the war on drugs. Senators are satisfied with the certification, but are afraid to assume a "soft" position in the eyes of the public.
(INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE 18/07)
US
Marijuana divides billionaires. George Soros, the biggest supporter of the medical use of marijuana in California and Arizona, is planning to proposed the same in Washington State. Steve Forbes, former presidential republican candidate, on the other hand, is sponsoring anti-drugs campaigns.
(NEWSWEEK 28/07)
US
After a public survey, that considers penalties for crack 100 times tougher than those for other drugs, the Department of Justice, has proposed to weaken crack-related penalties and reinforce those on cocaine. Some President's aides fear the public's judgment on this decision considered too soft on drugs.
(NEWSWEEK 18/07)
MEXICO
Vincent Turan Uribe, 41, has been elected mayor of Agua Prieta, a village at the US border. Mr Uribe's election follows the publication of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, in which Mr. Uribe is listed as one of the top 20 Mexican narco-dealer. the event could be considered as a referendum on the US inference into Mexican internal affairs.
(INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE 21/07)
ITALY
Modena - An unbelievable sentence of the local court: some north-African drug-dealer, arrested by the police, because they confessed their involvement in illegal activities, have been set free because unemployed and therefore committing a crime in a state of "necessity".
(IL GIORNALE, LA REPUBBLICA 20/07)
CHINA
The State Press Agency has recently delivered the list of capital executions for drug-related crimes. During the months of June some 100 people have been killed 26 in the last two days.
(CORRIERE DELLE SERA 20-21/07)
EUROPE
Recent studies in the UK and Austria confirm that XTC has a logoring effect on the nervous system, particularly on the terminal receptor of serotonin, provoking a persistent depression and a strong decrease of memory and concentration capacity. Some other researcher have invited their colleagues to expand their works and inquire if the tested peopled assumed other substances.
(PANORAMA 24/07)
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