000106 22/06/98
E.U. / GB
HEALTH / CANNABIS
LE FIGARO
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Gw Pharmaceuticals has been alloweed to produce cannabis for therapeutic use. It will be produced secretly in the South of England.
000100 19/06/98
E.U. / FRANCE
HEALTH / REPORT
LE FIGARO / LE MONDE
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The Roques report on drugs is still causing debate within the government, which is contrary to depenalization, and great criticism on the part of the opposition.
000092 19/06/98
E.U. / FRANCE / PARIS
INITIATIVE
LE FIGARO / LIBERATION
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800 supporters of the depenalization of cannabis, holoding forth the Roques report which says cannabis is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, have had thier annual meeting on the 18th of June (the so called 18th joint). The Police had vetoed the event.
000093 22/06/98
E.U. / GERMANY
INITIATIVE / POLLS
DER SPIEGEL
/ /
A broad section of the political world agrees that a controlled distribution of heroin can fight the illegal and criminal drug market. 61% of the 1005 interviewed are favourable; 36% are against and 3% did not answer.
000105 24/06/98
E.U.
INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL TIMES
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The European Union is about to take measures towards cultivators of cannabis for textile use who are asking for subsidies. It is alleged that they could eventually produce Marijuana.
000104 23/06/98
ASIA / MALAYSIA
JURISPRUDENCE
FRANKFURTER
/ /
A 28 year old Philippine citizen who was arrested in 1996 for posessing 811 grams of hashish has been condemned to death. The execution has been suspended, but the Government still follows a strict 'free from drugs within ten years' policy.
000094 18/06/98
E.U. / GB
MARKET
THE TIMES
/ /
Sir George Martin, former producer of the Beatles, intends to create an 'Ethical Committee' whose task should be that of fighting pop music industry's incouragement of drug use.
000095 22/06/98
E.U. / GERMANY
MARKET / ECSTASY
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z. / LA REPUBBLICA
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'Liquid Ecstasy' has arrived either from the USA or from Italy. The Government says that in the first five months of its diffusion deaths from drug use have been 635 against the 539 of the same period in 1997. It is an increment of +17,8%.
000096 24/06/98
E.U. / FRANCE
MARKET / RHOYPNOL
L'EXPRESS
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Roche, the pharmaceutical industry, has changed the colouring agent used in Rhoypnol, the sleeping drug. In this way the product cannot be used on someone without their knowing about it.
000097 13/06/98
E.U. / FRANCE
ORGANIZATION
LE MONDE
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Secretary of Health Mr. Kouchner says he still has many doubts regarding the hypothesis of reforming the law on cannabis.
000098 19/06/98
AFRICA / S.AFRICA
ORGANIZATION
HERALD TRIBUNE
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The Commission on Apartheid has discovered that in 1993 the Government dumped tons of various kinds of drugs in the ocean. The drugs were to be used to 'control' the black population.
000099 22/06/98
AMERICA / COLUMBIA
ORGANIZATION / WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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On request of the USA, the Government agrees to experiment use of Tebutiurone, a weed killer, to destroy coca cultivations. It could, although, pollute underground water reservoires.
000101 19/06/98
AMERICA / USA
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
/ /
David Musto, who teaches history of medicine at Yale University, has criticized the American strategy for fighting drugs that has taken shape after the UN summit.
000102 22/06/98
AMERICA / MEXICO
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
/ /
After reciprocal criticism because of undue interference, Mexico and the USA have agreed to collaborate on investigations of banking accounts used in coverage of drug traffic.
000103 18/06/98
E.U. / FRANCE
WAR ON DRUGS
LIBERATION 18/06 / LE MONDE 20/06
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After long indecision, the Cabinet has nominated the Magistrate Nicole Maestracci President of the MILDT (an interministerial commission for the war against drugs).
GERMANY - Horst Kruse, head of Police in Bielefeld, says that "Present strategies against drugs have failed". Dierk H. Scnitzler, President of Police Forces in Bonn, says that "Through repression we will never win over the illegal drug market". For Manfred Rommel, former Mayor of Stuttgart, "Police persecution in antidrug strategies is useless".
ITALY - The daily newspaper "L'Opinione" has published an article by Carmelo Palma, representative of the Cora, intitled "A Lesson from Germany".
