ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 4 #18, July 2 1998
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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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PRT / RUSSIA
- An appeal on the theme of fighting drugs has been presented to the deputies of the Russian Parliament after the approval of the federal law on drugs and psicho active substances .
- Nikolaj Kramov, coordinator for the Transnational Padical Party, has sent an open letter to the President of the Duma Committee For Health Protection. In the letter, answering to accuses made to the TRP of "favoring the drug mafia", he invites the Committee to contact the Dutch Government and verify the official figures of the results from their politics on light drugs.
000119 29/06/98
U.E. / ITALY
DRUG ADDICTION
EL PAIS
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A study shows that a heroin overdose can occur with greater chance after a period of abstinence. The heroin is tranformed into morphine, and when it enters the blood stream can produce the overdose.
000111 02/07/98
AMERICA / USA
HEALTH
L'ESPRESSO / /
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The outcome of a study shows that THC is effective for limiting nausea and vomit synptoms in patients who are undergoing chemiotherapy and for restoring appetite in people with AIDS.
000112 01/07/98
E.U. / FRANCE
HEALTH
LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR
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In an interview Secretary of Health Mr. B. Kouchner says that he is favourable to a regulamentation of cannabis(as of alcohol and tobacco) but against its actual depenalization. This is typical of French conservatorism on drugs: they defend thier own addictions (like hunting) and despise anyone else's.
000113 25/06/98
E.U. / FRANCE
HEALTH
LE FIGARO
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The Academy of Medicine, in contrast with the Roques report, says that cannabis is certainly toxic, and is favourable to a strategy of special controls on automobile drivers involved in dealdly accidents.
000108 27/06/98
E.U. / GERMANY
INITIATIVE
FRANKFURTER / SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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On the occasion of the International Day Against Drugs, the SPD, Green and FDP parties have again declared themselves favourable to special health care for drug addicts and controlled distibution of heroin. The CDU party is instead against this. They say the Swedish policy should be adopted, not the Swiss one.
000117 30/06/98
E.U. / HOLLAND
INITIATIVE
EL PAIS
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The Dutch experimental plan of controlled distribution of heroin to about one hundred addicts will start within a week's time, late and after a long period of debate.
000107 27/06/98
AMERICA / BOLIVIA
JURISPRUDENCE
THE TIMES
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A twenty five year old anthropologist has been arrested for posessing 2 kilos of marijuana. 'I believe in legalizing all drugs' she declared.
000109 25/06/98
E.U. / CH
LAWS
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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The Government resolution that specifies how controlled distribution of heroin should work, on the basis of the new law on drugs (No. 2004/2005), has been approved by the State Council.
000110 03/07/98
AMERICA / CANADA
MARKET
THE ECONOMIST
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Export of Canadian marijuana has quadrupled in the last two years.
000118 30/06/98
AFRICA / NIGERIA
MARKET
HERALD TRIBUNE
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A survey on drug production, traffic and corruption in General Abacha's country shows that Nigeria, although diplomatically isolated, still produces between 40 and 60 % of the world heroin. In the streets of Lagos the price is of 15 $ per gram. Nonetheless, a Nigerian anti-drug agency still exists (the NDLEA).
000114 22/06/98
E.U. / SPAIN
WAR ON DRUGS
CAMBIO 16
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Being a country through which a great deal of drug traffic passes, Spain shold be glad about the outcome of the UN conference on drugs. Infortunately, the USA style of fighing drugs that has been reproposed does not induce any kind of optimism.
000115 02/07/98
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
L'ESPRESSO
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A quick portrait of how Leonardo Gallego, the man who is fighting the South American drug cartels by burning coca cultivations, carries out his expeditions: On his side there is a satellite, helicopters and three thousand soldiers; against him, the bosses,the peasants and the guerrilla.
000116 29/06/98
ASIA / UZBEKISTAN
WAR ON DRUGS
CORRIERE DELLA SERA / LA STAMPA 29/6 / THE TIMES 28/6
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Biological warfare against opium: A special fungus will kill the poppy plants. British,American and Russian scientits are working to create an anti heroin parassite.
ITALY- The Rifondazione Comunista party (Communist Refounding), in verifying its role in the Government majority, has advanced the request that free distribution of drugs for personal use be depenalized, that light drugs be legalized and that controlled distibution of heroin be seriously experimented.
GERMANY- Ulrich Goll (FDP), Secretary of Justice of Baden-Wuttenburg, has declared: "The Swiss experience shows that a drug addict's growing 'social stability' is a phenomenon which takes place contemporarily with the diminishing of criminality".
