000082 13/06/98
E.U. / ITALY
DRUG ADDICT
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
/ /
Shiatsu therapies are being used also in hospitals. They seem to be useful in curing drug addiction.
000091 16/06/98
E.U. / HOLLAND
DRUG ADDICT / JOINTS
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
/ /
From now on Dutch soldiers who may be found smoking a joint together with others risk being expelled from the army. Smoking in private is , instead, not punished.
000078 18/06/98
E.U. / WORLD
DRUG MAFIA
L'ESPRESSO
/ /
The money that international drug traffic and criminality needs to recycle every year amounts to 330 million $. Where does the recycling take place? In any one of the 63 small states in which fly-by-night banks can strive, owing to favourable laws.
000088 16/06/98
AMERICA / COLUMBIA
DRUG MAFIA
HERALD TRIBUNE
/ /
The Colombian drug traffic bosses invest their wealth in sculptures, hunting trophies, private zoos and jewellery. All, of course, is rigorously in 'Kitsch' style.
000079 12/06/98
AMERICA
DRUG MAFIA / RECYCLING / INTERVENTION
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
/ /
Evident discomfort about how 'Operation Casablanca' has been carried was manifested at the annual meeting of the USA-Mexico Commission. On one side Mexico accuses the Americans of having violated international treaties, on the other the USA simply registers their resentment without apologizing.
000090 17/06/98
E.U. / FRANCE
HEALTH
LA STAMPA / LE MONDE
/ /
A study commissioned by the Ministry of Public health says that hashish is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.
000086 16/06/98
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND / ZURICH
JURYSPRUDE / HEMP
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
/ /
The State Attorney has denounced a shopkeeper who was selling marijuana stuffed pillows. There is great interest for the outcome of the sentence, because it will constitute the basis for future jurysprudence.
000087 10/06/98
EUROPE / SWITZERLANDS
LAWS
LIBERATION
/ /
The new law against the recycling of drug money in Swiss banks has become effective.
000077 13/06/98
E.U. / GERMANY / BERLIN
MARKET
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
/ /
Marijuana beer is having an enourmous success. Competitor brands are up in arms, but this beverage, that 'can make your head spin' is perfectly legal. At least up to this day.
000080 19/06/98
E.U. / GB
ORGANIZATION
THE ECONOMIST 19/6 / THE TIMES 12/6
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The English Government has asked GW Pharmaceuticals to put together a study on the effects of therapeutical use of cannabis.
000081 12/06/98
AFRICA / SOUTH AFRICA
ORGANIZATION
LA REPUBBLICA 12/6 / THE TIMES 10/6
/ /
In 1984 Botha's regime was planning to reduce the black population to obedience through mass-narcotization by using Madrax, an opium derivate.
000089 17/06/98
E.U. / GERMANY
ORGANIZATION
LA REPUBBLICA
/ /
Various heads of Police, Mayors and Secretaries of various federal offices have a shocking request for the Government: That the State supply heroin under medical control.
000083 11/06/98
WORLD
WAR ON DRUGS
MISCELLANEOUS FROM 11/6 TO 19/6
/ /
The UN summit on drugs has closed without any substancial result and the Arlacchi plan has been approved with difficulty and scarce funding. The destruction of drug cutivations and their substitution with alternative kinds of agriculture will cost about 500 million $ until year 2008. Very few countries will participate in the funding.
000084 12/06/98
E.U. / FRANCE
WAR ON DRUGS
LE MONDE
/ /
French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has declared himself as being against the legalization of light drugs.
000085 12/06/98
E.U. / FRANCE
WAR ON DRUS
LIBERATION
/ /
For reasons of political nature, the ****** has not yet nominated the new President of the Interministerial Commission Against Drugs.
ITALY- The councillor responsible for social policies of the region of Tuscany is reproposing free distribution of heroin, after that the Ministry of Health already vetoed this idea a month ago. there ios a lot of talking about this, for and against.
ITALIA- The President of the RAI, the italian public television network, has proposed that the 21st of November become the official day aginst drugs, with coordinated live shows from TV networks around the world.
USA-On the 12th of June the New York Times published an article by M. Rosenthal in favour of the legalization of drugs.
