000067 06/06/98
E.U. / SPAIN / MADRID
DRUG ADDICT
LA STAMPA
/ /
Distribution of methadone in parish churches: this is the shocking idea of an Anti-drug Agency in a Madrid District.
000074 10/06/98
E.U. / FRANCE
DRUG ADDICT / GHB / ALARM
L'EVENEMENT DU JEUDI
/ /
GHB has reached also france. The substance, known as 'liquid Ecstasy' is a cheap subtitute for heroin. It originated as a pharmacological product.
000068 06/06/98
E.U. / GERMANY
DRUG ADDICT / TYPE / SITUATION
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
/ /
Heavy drug addicts are between 250.000 and 300.000; pharmacological product addicts are 1.400.000; alcoholics in need of care are 2.500.000; tobacco addicts are 6 millon out of 17 million smokers.
000072 10/06/98
EUROPE / RUSSIA
DRUG MAFIA
LIBERATION
/ /
A russian specialist says that unified customs between Russia and other ISC countries could become a 'drug unification' easing the work of drug traffickers.
000063 03/06/98
SOUTH AMERICA
DRUG MAFIA / HERION / EXPORT
EL PAIS
/ /
In virtue of their alliance with the Colombians, Mexican drug cartels have gone from being petty drug dealers to being producers of ultra refined heroin,surpassing thus the Asiatic mafia for control of the drug market in the USA.
000066 06/06/98
E.U. / GB
HEALTH / CANNABIS
FINANCIAL TIMES
/ /
A study by the State Department on healthcare says that use of cannabis is justified in therapies against AIDS and some forms of cancer.
000058 03/06/98
E.U. / GB
INFORMATION
THE TIMES
/ /
Anti- drug information will be introduced in English school programs, in agreement with the Home Office Advisers.
000059 07/06/98
E.U. / GB
INITIATIVE
THE TIMES
/ /
Alan Duncan, spokesman for the Tory party, is going to publish a book in favour of legalization of drugs. Immediate criticism on the part of William Hague, head of the party.
000071 08/06/98
E.U. / FRANCE / PARIS
INITIATIVE / ANTIPROHIBITION / DEMONSTRATION
LE FIGARO / LIBERATION 08/06 / LE MONDE 09/06
/ /
'Prohibitionism is a crime': at the closing of the congress of the CORA activists of various organizations have marched in the streets of Paris against article L 630 of the public health code on drugs.
000060 06/06/98
WORLD
INITIATIVE / APPEAL
CORRIERE DELLA SERA 06/06 / HERALD TRIBUNE 10/06
/ /
Drugs: Punishment is not an answer. This is the content of an appeal to the U.N.against hyper-prohibitionism signed by over 400 prominent personalities from all over the world. Among these: Emma Bonino, George Soros, Daniel Cohn Bendit and George Shultz.
000061 07/06/98
E.U. / FRANCE
LAWS / DEPENALIZATION / HOSTILITY
LE MONDE
/ /
President Jaques Chirac has criticized Holland because its laws on drugs ore 'completely different' from those of other E.U. partner countries.
000062 04/06/98
OCEANIA / NEW ZEALAND / AUCKLAND
MARKET / CANNABIS
THE TIMES
/ /
University studies show that all the cannabis sequesterded in one year by police forces is less than half of what is actually grown, but is nonetheless still worth 700 million NZD.
000064 12/06/98
E.U. / GB
ORGANIZATION
THE ECONOMIST
/ /
While on one hand the Government encourages night life in London, it is trying on the other to find ways to fight 'rave parties' and 'acid houses', preferred meeting places for Ecstasy consumers.
000073 10/06/98
E.U. / ITALY / MILANO
ORGANIZATION / HEROIN
LA STAMPA / CORRIERE DELLA SERA
/ /
A traffic that exchanged drugs for weapons directed to Kossovo has been stopped. The drugs were also used to finance foreign politicians and Islamic terrorists.
000065 03/06/98
E.U. / SPAIN
PREVENTION / CAMPAIGN / TELEVISION
EL PAIS
/ /
The Secretary of State for the Home Department and directors of Telemadrid, Canal 9 and Sogecable have signed an agreement for the creation of an anti-drug campaign. The main objective of this campaign is to prevent drug consumption and to produce television programs about the activities of the Plan Nacional sobre Drogas.
000069 04/06/98
AMERICA / USA
WAR ON DRUGS
CORRIERE DELLA SERA 4-7/6 / IL GIORNALE 4/6 / LA REPUBBLICA 7/6
/ /
The USA are against funding the new U.N. plan against drug traffic. Nonetheless, Pino Arlacchi repiles 'The USA are with me in the fight against drugs' and says that the news published on the Washington Post is nonesense.
000070 05/06/98
AMERICA / MEXICO
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE / FRANKFURTER
/ /
Operation Casablanca, carried out by the USA, has brought to the arrest of 20 bankers. Mexican authorities approve the outcome but not the method because they weren't informed about the plan.
000075 10/06/98
WORLD
WAR ON DRUGS
MISCELLANEOUS FROM 5/6 TO 10/6
/ /
The United Nations conference on drugs has opened in New York. The project by Pino Arlacchi, director of the UNDCP, of subtituting drug cultivations with alternative types of cultivations in Asia and South America has been put under the exam of 150 countries. The plan has found heavy criticism on the part of the American Government and press.
000076 08/06/98
AMERICA / COLUMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS / COCA
LE FIGARO
/ /
Colombian police forces have been conducting for the past four years a war against drug traffic. Nonetheless Columbia remains the first producer in the world of coca leafs.
ITALY- The region of Tuscany is putting forth an agricultural plan to spread cultivations alternative to those of the coca leaf in South America. Colombian peasants will follow a special course held in the Tuscan countryside. ( editor's note: Arlacchi clones are sprawling ...)
WORLD - The Global Days Against the Drug War have had success: over 100 organizations from 55 cities around the world have already organized an initial international coordination.
