000020 08/05/98
E.U. / FRANCE
DRUG ADDICTION / CONSUMPTION / REPORT
LIBERATION
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In 1997 the use of cannabis has gone up by 15% amongst sixteen year olds and under in relation to 1996, while during the same period deaths for overdose have diminished by 41,98%. These figures have been elabrated by Octris.
000013 11/05/98
E.U. / GERMANY
DRUG ADDICTION / POLITICS
DER SPIEGEL
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During extremely discreet political missions representatives of CDU and CSU parties have gone to visit centres for controlled distribution of heroin in Zurich and Basel, and are convinced about the oppotunity of adopting the same measures also in Germany. Only after elections, of course...
000014 06/05/98
E.U. / FRANCE
DRUG ADDICTION / REMEDIES / REPORT
LIBERATION / LE FIGARO 06/05 / LE MONDE 07/05
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Heavy drug consumers are a total of 100000. 45000 of these are treated with subutex and 6000 with methadone. The jury of the 'Conference De Consensus'says that apart from harm reduction there is no real project that goes in the direction of zero drug consumption.
000023 13/05/98
E.U. / FRANCE
DRUG ADDICTION / TREATMENTS / INTERVIEW
L'EVENEMENT DU JEUDI
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From an interview with the Minister of Health Bernard Kouchner on the polemics about treatments with Subutex: 'It is less harmful than heroin; there is an overdose risk if it is associated with alcohol; doctors and farmacists have to be more careful in its use and diversify tratments, using also Methadone.
000021 11/05/98
E.U. / ITALY
JURISPRUDENCE
IL GIORNALE
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The Court of Cassation confirms the non-punishability of chronic drug addicts, as already established by the Constitutional Court.An addict who had killed his wife has been acquitted by the The Court of Cassation on the basis of article 95 of the criminal code which recognizes chronic drug addicts as being partially or totally demented.
000017 07/05/98
E.U. / ITALY
LAW
IL GIORNALE
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The majority parties in parliament are in disagreementon on depenalizing drug consumption as forseen by a decree that is being debated in Senate.The Partito Popolare is heavily against such a proposal, considering it a surrender in the war against drugs.
000018 06/05/98
E.U. / GB
LAW
THE TIMES
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Within a month special courts for drugs will be instituted which, as already happens in the United States, will have to judge drug consumers involved in crimes. This is what 'The Substance Measure Treatment and Enforcement Programme' (STEP), a creation of anti-drug 'tzar' Keith Hellawell, forsees.
000022 12/05/98
ASIA / BURMA
PRODUCERS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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The ex opium tycoon, Lo-Hsing-han is officially a respectable and succesful car dealer. But for the USA his wealth is clearly the sign of a system which is economically deeply founded on recycling of drug traffic money and in which the military forces incourage investments of such money in their own projects.
000019 07/05/98
AMERICA / CANADA
PRODUCERS / HEMP / CULTIVATION
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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After 60 years of prohibition Canada has legalized cultivation of hemp, thus breaking an old North American taboo. The USA are skeptical, even though it is only hemp for industrial use that is being considered.
000015 10/05/98
AMERICA / BOLIVIA
WAR ON DRUGS
CORRIERE DELLA SERA / IL GIORNALE
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With signs that say 'coca o muerte' peasants are protesting against the decision taken by the government to send 3000 soldiers to destroy coca plantations. In April, during riots, 9 people were killed.
000024 12/05/98
AMERICA / USA
WAR ON DRUGS
LA REPUBBLICA
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Clinton is launching a new 'International Strategy Against Crime' which hits four targets: drug traffic, smuggling of weapons for mass destruction, exporting of scientific know-how to countries considered at risk and women and children traffic.
000016 07/05/98
E.U. / GERMANY
WAR ON DRUGS / HELP
FRANKFURTER
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Economical developement must concile an effective war against drugs with protection of human rights and survival of former drug cultivators. It is the opinion of minister Spranger. Since 1989 Germany has set aside Dm 400 million to destroy drug cultivations and favour alternative types of agriculture.
ITALY- 'Does it annoy you if I smoke?' is the cover title of 'Sette', a weekly magazine sold together with the Corriere della Sera. The issue contains poll results and articles on the depenalization of hashish and marijuana in Italy.
ITALY- 'Putting out the joint' is the title of a poll research commissioned by newspapers La Nazione, Il Resto del Carlino and Il Giorno. The results are: 76% of their readers are against depenalizing use of light drugs, while 26% are in favour.
CANADA- The newspapaer 'Toronto Star' has compared the opinions of 27 political leaders, from Pino Arlacchi to the Radical Transnational Party, on the 'War on Drugs'.
ITALY- 'Liberi per Vivere' is the title of a demonstration that will take place in Rome on th 23d of May. It is organized by five communities that work in the reintegration of drug-attics,and on the occasion of U.N.'s June Conference it intends to support the policy of reducing drug demand and offer.
WORLD- 6th, 7th and 8th of June will be the '1998 Global days against the Drug War'. Anti-prohibitionist initiatives will take place in various parts of the world.
GREAT BRITAIN- The closing day of the 'Sheffield Cannabis Awareness Week' will include balloons, ice creams and cigarettes...rolled with cannabis, of course.
TCHECK REPUBLIC- The "Antiprohibicni liga" has been founded in Prague.
Mailto: antiprohibicni@post.cz
USA- A world-wide archive of articles about drug policies is available on the web, also translated into English.
BELGIUM- Associations CCLA and DEBED are organizing for the 6th of June the "Day Against the War on Drugs"
