000036 20/05/98
E.U. / ITALY / TURIN
ADDICTION / RIGHTS
LA STAMPA
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To inject heroin on public premises can cause police arrest for offence against defency. This has happened to an addict who was injecting in a city square. For the police forces these are 'new rule', but the opinion of Carmelo Palma of the CORA is that 'drug addicts may create problems for public security, not decency'.
000035 20/05/98
AMERICA / MEXICO
DRUG MAFIA / RECICLYING / DENOUNCES
HERALD TRIBUNE / SUEDDEUTSCHE Z. / LE MONDE 21/05
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The Ministry of Finance has denounced 12 out of 19 Mexican banks for reciclying of dirty money from international drug traffic. A three year long investigation has evidenced links between Mexican and Columbian cartels and the banks.
000026 18/05/98
E.U. / ITALY
INFORMATION / PUBLICITY
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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The Jury which auto regulates publicity has stygmatized the videoclip 'Acido-Acida', of the pop group Prozac + because, the Jury says, it propagandizes drug consumption. The members of the pop group answer: 'Young people are well aware of reality, and know that it is also made of ugly things'
000027 18/05/98
E.U. / ITALY
INFORMATION / PUBLICITY
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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The Italian Society of Psychopathology is against the new Government anti-drug campaign, which in some cases puts use of anti depressive medicines and use of drugs on the same level. This, they say, is an insult to those who are fighting against depression.
000028 18/05/98
E.U.
INFORMATION / REPORT
CORRIERE DELLA SERA / IL GIORNALE / IL MESSAGGERO
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A report of the Pompidou Centre - the anti drug nucleus of the European Council on drugs, alcohol and tobacco consumption among European adolescents - says that diffusion of legal and illegal drugs is very high. In Italy 21% of adolescents smokes marijuana; 42% in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
000025 15/05/98
E.U. / FRANCE
JURYSPRUDENCE / SENTENCE / NEWS
LIBERATION
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The Tribunal Correctionel has recognised the Collectif d'Information et de Recherche Cannabique guilty of having violated the prohibition to demonstrate during the '18th joint', which took place on the 22nd of June of 1997, but has not sentenced any punishment. This is a new fact,which spurs the CIRC to fight for a revision of the 1970 law on drugs.
000029 16/05/98
AMERICA / USA / KENTUCKY
LAWS / CULTIVATION
FINANCIAL TIMES
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A group of farmers has resorted to the Federal Court asking to be allowed to cultivate hemp. They say that Congress, with its 'Controlled Substances Act' has not prohibited cultivation of hemp for industrial use, which should be governed by different laws than those which control marijuana growing.
000030 13/05/98
E.U. / GB
LAWS / PRISONERS
THE TIMES
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Prisoners who use marijuana will be treated less severely than those who use heroin and cocaine, but this should not be seen as pardoning. The Government will repress consumption of heavy drugs, which are more dangerous for health and safety in the prisons.
000033 20/05/98
E.U. / GERMANY / HAMMBOURG
MARKET / SMUGGLERS / SENTENCE
FRANKFURTER / SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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The Constitutional Court has accepted the reasons of a drug smuggler who had denounced the police that imposed surgery on him to remove 14 cocaine capsules from his stomach. The Court has asked that it be verified whether police forces are guilty of injury.
000034 19/05/98
E.U.
MARKET / TRANSPORT / CONTROLS
LIBERATION
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On the night between the 16th and the 17th of May police forces and exice officers have operated thousands of controls in road blocks on 'drug routes' in the Schengen territory, between Holland, Belgium and France. Other controls have taken place on Amsterdam-Brussels-Paris trains. As a result high quantities of drugs have been sequestered.
000031 13/05/98
E.U. / GB
WAR ON DRUGS
THE TIMES
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The anti-drug 'tzar' Keith Hellawell says that one of his targets is to fight the campaign for legalization of cannabis that is being brought forth by the 'Independent on Sunday'. Hellawell claims that the campaign would cause an augment in heroin consumption among young people.
000037 20/05/98
/ /
WAR ON DRUGS
IL MESSAGGERO / LA REPUBBLICA /
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After three years the USA have finished the 'Casablanca' operation. With the aid of the Italian Carabinieri a gigantic international reciclying of narco-dollars that involved banks, managers and mafia bosses from Columbia, Mexico, Italy, the USA and other conutries has been blocked.
000032 17/05/98
E.U. / GB / BIRMINGHAM
WAR ON DRUGS / SUMMIT
CORRIERE DELLA SERA / IL MESSAGGERO / IL SOLE 24 ORE / LA REPUBBLICA / LA STAMPA / THE WALL STREET / FINANCIAL TIMES / LIBERATION / LE MONDE / THE TIMES
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The G8 summit will take on the task of reducing production, demand and dealing of drugs and drug addiction. Clinton and Chirac have stated once again their firm contriarity to the depenalization of light drugs.
ITALY - The Italian Senator Pedrizzi, of Alleanza Nazionale (a moderate right-wing opposition party) has asked the Government to "Stop the pop group Prozac+, because their songs are a celebration of drug consumption".
ITALY - Drug traffic and dirty money recycling. Police forces in Bergamo put up a trap consisting in a fake financial company. Three banks are under observation: BNL, Rolo and MPS.
USA - An anti-prohibitionist interview with the Nobel Prize Milton Friedman appears on the "San Jose Mercury News"
WORLD - 5th - 10th of June will be the '1998 Global days against the Drug War'. Anti-prohibitionist initiatives will take place in various parts of the world.
