000173 04/08/98
E.U. / GB
CONSUMERS
THE TIMES
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The Secretary of Defence confirms the fact that during the past 16 months 30 soldiers, enough to form a platoon, have been expelled from the Army having been found positive during anti drug tests.
000179 04/08/98
E.U. / GB /
DRUG ADDICT
THE TIMES
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A report by the Government shows that use of heroin is by now also diffused among the very young. Drug dealers have managed to break the typical stereotype of drug addiction creating a market which is easily accesible by everyone.
000170 30/07/98
EUROPE / SWITZERL / BASEL
HEALTH
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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After various cases of intoxication from teas made with narcotizing substances occurred in Zurich and Berne, another similar case has happened in Basel. Some young people ate berries that have a drugging effect and one of them ended up in hospital.
000177 05/08/98
E.U. / GERMANY
HEALTH
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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Addicition from alcohol and pills is three times greater among members of the medical world. The reasons are stress, easy access to pharmacological products and general censure of the phenomenon on the part of colleagues.
000178 04/08/98
E.U. / GB
HEALTH
LE FIGARO
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A pharmaceutical industry has recently been given permission to grow marijuana and begin experimentation of therapeutic effects of the plant.
000166 30/07/98
E.U. / GB
INITIATIVE
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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In an interview to 'The big isue' weekly magazine of the homeless, Ringo Starr says: I don't think that the anti-drug campaigns the English and American governments have adopted have served any purpose. It is just a waste of money'.
000174 04/08/98
E.U. / GERMANY
JUSTICE
FRANKFURTER 04/08 / SUEDDEUTSCHE Z. 05/08
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The report on crime of this first semester shows that there is a slight decrease of crimeful events in general, but that juvenile crime is augmenting. There is also an increase of crimes related to drugs (+9,7%) and the number of heavy drug users is also going up (+19,8%).
000167 01/08/98
AMERICA / USA
MARKET
THE ECONOMIST
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A study by the University of Chicago evidences that small drug pushers don't even earn 5,15 $ an hour, which is the minimum pay for a worker. The average crack dealer makes 200 $ a month. There are of course various degrees of this kind of income, up to the level of a boss' one, which is of about 100000 $ a year.
000175 05/08/98
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
MARKET /
LA STAMPA
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Thousands of young Italians regularly visit the 16 new coffe shops that have opened near the Italian border. There they can buy various products made with cannabis.
000176 04/08/98
E.U. / GB
PERSONALITY
THE TIMES
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Robert Christopher, after having changed his name in 'Free R Cannabis', has been charged guilty of possessing a marijuana plant. He had been demonstrating against the Govermnment's decision against therapeutic use of cannabis.
000168 29/07/98
E.U. / GB
PREVENTION
THE TIMES
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Publicity incourages use of drugs. This is what 'News of the World' says pointing its finger against a commercial that shows a man sniffing away at the white lines of a football field, evidently poking fun at cocaine users.
000169 03/08/98
E.U. / ITALY / PERUGIA
PREVENTION /
LA REPUBBLICA / IL MESSAGGERO / IL GIORNALE
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The results of tests conducted by the Police outside of discotheques show that one out of three people have traces of illegal substances in their urine. These then get denounced for driving under the effects of narcotics.
000171 31/07/98
AMERICA
WAR ON DRUGS
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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The Cuban Government intends to encourage good relations with the USA, and therefore offers its collaboration in the war against drugs. This is what the Cuban Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Ms. Isabel Allende, said at the Conference for Friendship Between America and Cuba.
000172 30/07/98
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
LE FIGARO
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The State General Prosecutor of Colombia, Mr. A.G. Mendoza reveals that during the past seven years the Nation's powerful drug dealers have 'given' 500 million dollars to politicians, athletes and journalists.
USA - Appeal in favour of Peter Mc Williams, unjustly imprisoned for growing and selling marijuana. It is possible to support Mr. Mc Williams and the cause of therapeutic use of marijuana by writing diectly to him in prison at the following address:
Prisoner 13835-112
P.O. Box 1500
Los Angeles, CA 90053
It is furthermore important to try and sensitize other people, newspapers and organizations on this issue. For information, write to MGreer@mapinc.org
