ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 4 #25, August 20 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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CORA / SERT
The General Public Prosecutor of Turin has asked that the account of facts produced by the CORA on the services of the SERT be archived. The account says that "Resources, means and personnel" which are at this moment available in Turin and Piedmont are inadequately dimesioned in relation to what the law requires, and this mainly for "funding problems". This although does not seem to be enough, and in September the CORA will present this account of facts again.
000197 18/08/98
E.U. / GB
CRIME
THE TIMES
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There are already 300 cases on record in which young women get kidnapped, drugged, raped and sometimes even filmed. After the effect of the drug is over victims seem unable to remeber anything.
000200 19/08/98
E.U. / GB / GLASGOW
DRUG ADDICT
IL GIORNALE
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The Scotland we know from films seems very distant in a report on Glasgow which depicts the city as European capital of heroin, with 700 thousand inhabitants 10 thousand of which are drug addicts and more deaths per year for overdose than in London (about one hundred).
000193 17/08/98
E.U.
DRUG MAFIA
IL SOLE 24 ORE
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Cooperation among countries of the European Community to fight recycling of dirty money has been strengthened by widening the number of economic subjects to be controlled.
000194 18/08/98
E.U. / GB
DRUG MAFIA
FINANCIAL TIMES
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The National Criminal Intelligence Service has accused the administrators and attorneys of various banks and real estate companies of having a blinded attitude regarding the question of recycling dirty money.
000195 14/08/98
AMERICA / USA
HEALTH
HERALD TRIBUNE
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Since Viagra pills can be sold without any sort of guarantee against their possible side effects, why isn't a correct therapeutic use of marijuana alllowed? This question has been posed by Doctor Risher of the Lindesmith Center.
000199 19/08/98
E.U. / ITALY
HEALTH
CORRIERE DELLA SERA / IL MESSAGGERO / IL MESSAGGERO
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Marijuana and hashish are addicitve. A research by the University of Sassari and the University of Cagliari which has been published on the American magazine Procceding of the National Academy of Sciences says that in a habitual consumer the production of dopamine, the hormone of pleasure, diminishes when use of these drugs is suspended.
000192 14/08/98
E.U. / GB
INITIATIVE
THE TIMES
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The parents of a girl who died after taking an ecstasy pill have declared that they do not intend to collaborate with the Essex Police anymore, judging it uneffective and scarsely aware of the problems inherent the drug question.
000198 17/08/98
EUROPE / RUSSIA
MARKET
DIE PRESSE
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Opium produced in Afghanistan reaches the international market through the frontiers of Uzbekistan and Tadschikistan, two former Soviet republics, thus allowing the Talebans to buy new armaments.
000196 17/08/98
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
THE ECONOMIST
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Barry Mc Caffrey, President Clinton's adviser on the drug question, has reaffirmed from Bogota the necessity of firmly maintaining war against the Narcos. Furthermore he judges posiitvely the destruction of coca cultivations.
ITALY - Darkene is having a real boom in the region of Romagna. It is a powerful sleeping pill and is useful in cases of abstinence from drugs but becomes very dangerous if used together with heroin.
