000155 26/07/98
E.U. / ITALY
CONSUMERS
CORRIERE DELLA SERA 23/07 / LA REPUBBLICA 26/07
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Ecstasy, the 'Disco' drug becomes more frightening during new dancing fads. New natural substances are sought for, and home grown mushrooms are beconing more frequent. In the meanwhile the Government is up in arms against Ecstasy, and new initiatives are being though of to offer an alternative to drug consumption.
000164 28/07/98
E.U. / ITALY
DRUG ADDICT
MISCELLANEOUS NEWSPAPERS FROM / VARIOUS DATES
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The death of a child who drank a dose of methadone which had been left unguarded by her drug addicted parents under medical care of a public service has opened the way to a lot of discussion. Some, like the deputee Pedrizzi of the Alleanza Nazionale party, say that methadone has caused more damage than anything else.
000165 28/07/98
EUROPE / SWITZERL / BERNE
DRUG ADDICT
LA STAMPA / NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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The 'witch's herb', popular term for identifing the 'dastura stramonium' is being talked about. The plant can be used to make hallucenogenic teas. There have been ten cases of intoxication, one of which deadly. There is a lot of alarm about this because it is an ornamental plant that can be found in parks and gardens.
000157 03/08/98
AFRICA / S.AFRICA
DRUG MAFIA
NEWSWEEK
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Owing to poor control of the frontiers, impoverishment of the population and lack of coordination among Police Forces, South Africa is becoming a pole of attraction for international crime. Drug traffic is the center point of such activities.
000158 24/07/98
E.U. / GB / LIVERPOOL
DRUG MAFIA
THE TIMES
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A gang of drug pushers among whome there were militaries of the Royal Regiment has been stopped. The soldiers confess they sold anphetamines, but deny having done the same with cocanie, heroin or ecstasy.
000162 29/07/98
ASIA / LEBANO
DRUG MAFIA
LA STAMPA
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Drug traffic has incremented since November 1997, when the USA decided to erase Siria and Lebanon from the list of States that produce narcotics. Now many peasants grow marijuana and opium poppies again, and there is less control over drug pushers. In the Beka region the organized crime works at refining drugs. The whole business is controlled by Siria and the Hezbollah.
000163 29/07/98
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
DRUG MAFIA
FINANCIAL TIMES
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Public Prosecutor Alfonso Gomez Mendez has released news that more bank accounts linked to the Cali cartel have been found. 37 thousand, containing over 550 million $ and distributed over 90 differnt banks. Former secrtearies of dpeartment, three former policemen, an attorney-at-law and about 30 deputies are involved. On the whole 80 thousand bank accounts of this type have been discovered.
000160 23/07/98
E.U. / GB
HEALTH
IL MESSAGGERO
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There is a certain alarm among doctors because of Viagra pills being sold in discotheques together with ecstasy. There are high risks of heart failures and cerebral strokes.
000156 25/07/98
AMERICA / USA
MARKET
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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The Department of Justice has aquitted the CIA from the accusation of having, in the eighties, sold crack in the ghettoes to finance the Contras in Nicaragua in the war aginst the Sandinists.
000159 25/07/98
E.U. / FRANCE
PREVENTION
LE MONDE
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The Prime Minister, given the new classification of drugs in the Roques report, which bases criteria on toxicity of substances and not on their being legal or illegal, has asked the interministerial office for the fight against drugs (the Mildt) to elaborate new strategies.
000161 23/07/98
AMERICA / USA
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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David C. Lewis and June Osborn, respectively Director and Member of the scientific committee of the National Drug Policy say that the war on drugs has been a political and economic failure, particularly because repression has been favoured instead of medical care.
ITALY - On the Emerald Coast, in Sardinia, investigations have started on the recycling of money made by the Russian Mafia together with the local Mafia from drug traffic.
ITALY - The city of Turin will invest 103 million Lire in a project of prevention and care against drug addiction.
USA - PHILADELPHIA - "The Action Class for Freedom of Therapeutic Cannabis: has denounced the Government because of the unconstitutionality of the law that prohibits therapeutic use of cannabis.
USA - LOS ANGELES - Peter Mc Willis, Publisher of the "The Medical Marijuana Magazine", an on-line magazine, has been arrested by the Federal Police with the accuse of drug pushing. Mr. Mc Willis has Aids, and cures himself with a cocktail of medicines that cause him nausea, which in turn he manages to overcome by using Marijuana. The Government does not allow him to use this cure in prison.
