ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 4 #26, August 27 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 / ADDICTION TO CANNABIS
Researches by the University of Cagliari only reinforce the battle towards legalization. In order to cope with the phenomenon of a drug that gives sure addiction it is necessary that this drug be made legal so that its production and sale be taken away from the hands of the Mafia.
000201 21/08/98
E.U. / GERMANY / BERLIN
CRIME
LE FIGARO
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The presence of the Russian mafia in the German capital is becoming always more consistent. Over 300 companies are involved in illegal traffic, and more than three thousand deaths have been recorded. The Police declares itself unable to cope with this situation.
000205 20/08/98
E.U. / GB
DRUG ADDICT
THE TIMES
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The results of a questionnaire show that low self-esteem, poor cultural background and the level of use of toxic substances by parents are factors that can influence the eventual risk that a child become a drug addict.
000206 21/08/98
E.U. / CANADA / VANCOUVER
DRUG ADDIC
HERALD TRIBUNE
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Vancouver has been nicknamed 'Vansterdam'. There are over 15.000 herin addicts, 201 cases of overdose have occurred in the first months of 1998 and 82 anti-drug Police operations have been carried out, findig many marijuana cultivations.
000210 24/08/98
E.U. / GB /
DRUG ADDICT
DER SPIEGEL
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Young people of ages between 14 and 25 consider heroin merely a means to have fun. One third of heroin addicts is 16 years old. Heroin is only slightly more expensive than the less dangerous ecstasy. The preferred place in which to drug oneself is at home. This is what a study by the Police Research Group says.
000204 21/08/98
E.U. / ITALY / GENOVA
DRUG PUSHE
CORRIERE DELLA SERA / LA STAMPA
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Some citizens who live in the historical center of Genova filmed with a videocamera some scenes of pushers selling heroin. The videocassettes were then given to the police, who arrested various drug pushers.
000203 19/08/98
E.U. / BRASIL
DRUG TRAFFIC
LIBERATION
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The Colombian narcos have hundreds of indios people of the amazon forest on pay-roll for their illegal business. The impervious land and water routes inside the forest have become new ways through which the cocaine traffic is carried about.
000202 20/08/98
E.U. / GB
INITIATIVE
THE TIMES
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An anti-drug videoclip is being showed in the elementary schools of Whales. The video contains a scene of a dying drug addict with a siringe in his arm.
000208 25/08/98
E.U. / FRANCE
INSTITUTION
LIBERATION
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The UN department for the fight against drugs wrote to the newspaper Liberation: 'One of your journalists entered Burma under false identity and has been expelled from the country. Because of this we will not provide your paper with anymore information'. Liberation's reply:'You agree with the version the Burman dictatorship gave you because our journalist entered with the only possible visa: a touristic one'.
000209 26/08/98
E.U. / GERMANY
MARKET
FRANKFURTER
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The consumption of anphetamines and heroin has gone up (16% and 9,7%). Overall drug consumption has diminished (-3,3%). Deaths have in any case augmented.
000211 22/08/98
EUROPE / ALBANIA
TRAFFIC
DIE PRESSE
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Albania, and particularly its southern regions, is the new land of the drug bosses, especially for the production of marijuana to be sold on the European market. Many peasants grow it. Then, by sea, it arrives in Holland and Germany.
000207 21/08/98
E.U. / AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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Hernando Gonzales Villamizar, Governor of a region of Colombia, has declared that the result of seven years of poisonous fumigation of the coca fields is that coca cuiltivations are augmenting.
ITALY - An emergency phone number that fights plagiarism has launched an alarm: On the Internet it is possible to buy of all kinds of illegal drugs.
