ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #25, June 28 1999
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Weekly Action Report on Drug Policies
Edited by the CORA - Radical Antiprohibitionist Coordination, federated to
- TRP-Transnational Radical Party (NGO, consultive status, I)
- The Global Coalition for Alternatives to the Drug War
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ITALY- While in Switzerland a referenda has approved a controlled distribution of heroin experimental plan, in Italy the under-secretary of Justice, and member of the green party Franco Corleone (who is also in charge of prisons) is not even capable of ensuring methadone treatments in Italian jails. Giulio Manfedi, of the CORA, has asked him to resign.
ITALY- Luciano Violante, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, has sounded an alarm on the new ecstasy problem. The CORA replies that risk reduction is not the right answer, because it does not take into consideration individual liberties, economy and health. It is instead necessary to fight clandestinity, to legalise and to be better informed.
000662 20/06/99
E.U. / GB
ADDICTION
THE TIMES
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The Home Office has established that the Police must bare all care expenses in case they arrest a drug addict and have him or her interned in a rehabilitation centre. The Police is protesting and taking a stance against this ordinance.
000674 20/06/99
AMERICA / ANTILLES
ADDICTION
LE MONDE
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The Government of the Dutch Antilles sends drug addicts to Amsterdam with a one-way ticket. Officially this is done to cure them in a rehab centre (which is not recognised and doesn't work), in reality it's only to get rid of them.
000675 17/06/99
AMERICA / USA
ADDICTION
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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TA-CD, a British made vaccine against cocaine addiction is at the moment being tested in the USA. The first results seem encouraging. The vaccine works by generating in the blood special antibodies that neutralise the effect of the drug.
000663 23/06/99
E.U. / ITALY
CONSUMERS
IL MESSAGGERO / LA REPUBBLICA / LA STAMPA
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Luciano Violante, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, has sounded an alarm regarding the spreading phenomenon of ecstasy. '40 or 50 ecstasy pills a year are enough to cause permanent brain damage' he said.
000666 21/06/99
E.U. / FRANCE
CONSUMERS
LIBERATION
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The annual meeting of the Circ (Centre d'information et de recherche cannabique) has been held again, with a higher number of participants than usual, to promote the use of cannabis in all its various forms.
000672 21/06/99
E.U. / SPAIN
HEALTH
EL PAIS
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Notwithstanding the Government's opposition, Andalusia will be the only Spanish region to experiment direct intra-venous controlled distribution of heroin. Cataluna, Madrid and Galicia have instead opted for the oral treatment.
000673 17/06/99
E.U. / FRANCE
HEALTH
LE FIGARO, LIBERATION 17/06 / LE MONDE 18/06
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In the new three year plan against drugs and addictions all types of drugs, legal and illegal, will be regarded in the same manner. The plan will include a reorganisation of public services, a better preparation of medical personnel, and an information campaign. Illegal drug consumers will no longer be put in prison.
000667 17/06/99
E.U.
JURISPRUDENCE
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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On the 19th of January, 1999, the European Court of justice annulled the sentence through which Greece had permanently expelled from the country Donatella Clava, a tourist who was found possessing hashish. Greece broke three fundamental principles of European jurisprudence: freedom of residence, freedom of travel and freedom to provide services.
000668 21/06/99
E.U. / SPAIN
JUSTICE
EL PAIS
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A new Sentence of the Tribunal Supremo establishes that the alleged drug addiction of a person under trial does not grant any reduced punishment.
000669 21/06/99
AMERICA / USA
JUSTICE
HERALD TRIBUNE
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The Supreme Court has established that Police patrols looking for drugs can search cars at road blocks even without a special authorisation or mandate.
000670 21/06/99
E.U. / GB
LEGALISATION
THE TIMES
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At the next meeting of the British Medical Association a group of doctors will propose a motion by which they ask for the legalisation of cannabis for personal use.
000664 24/06/99
E.U. / ITALY / VENTIMIGLIA
PREVENTION
LA STAMPA
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A group of mothers, being exasperated by the persistence of drug dealing in front of their children's elementary school, has put up posters that show names and addresses of the pushers.
000671 18/06/99
EUROPE / SWITZERL / ZUERICH
PREVENTION
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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The city of Zurich has inaugurated two new brightly coloured trams that carry advertisement messages for a 'first prevention' campaign against drug addiction. Music, debates and other interesting initiatives will take place inside the street cars.
000665 22/06/99
AMERICA
WAR ON DRUGS
EL PAIS
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For the first time since 1959 Cuban and American delegations have met to discuss the possibility of collaborating in a common war against drug traffic.
