ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 4 #27, September 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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CORA / ANTIDRUG TEST
The CORA of Perugia invites people who get stopped by the Police and undergo antidrug tests that are not specifically mentioned by the road regulations to send the report to the State Prosecutor because legitimacy this type of initiative on the part of the Police is dubious.
000218 30/08/98
E.U. / SPAIN
DRUG ADDICT
EL PAIS
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A research on about 200 people during a period of 2/5 years shows thate 80% of drug addicts who follow a disintoxication program do not go back to using drugs.
000220 31/08/98
EUROPE / SWITZERL / BERNE
HEALTH
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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The first two months of activity of the citizen mobile aid service for drug addicts have had positive results. In the meanwhile many hope that the Grand Council will admit 40 or 50 more candidates in the program of free heroin distribution.
000212 28/08/98
E.U. / FRANCE
MARKET
THE TIMES
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The Body Shop has been hit by fines and the sequestering of merchandise for having sold their new class of products that contain a low content of marijuana oil. The objection was not made to the product in itself but to the publicity images which showed marijuana leafs.
000213 28/08/98
E.U. / FRANCE
MARKET
LE MONDE
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From 1990 to 1997 the number of marijuana plants sequestered by the Police has gone from 1.500 to 40.000. The plants belonged in greater part to habitual consumers who had nothing to do with the drug market.
000214 28/08/98
E.U. / FRANCE
MARKET
LE MONDE
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The Central Office for repression of drug traffic has released the news that in 1997 3452 Kilos of marijuana have been sequestered. 329 of those were of French production.
000215 27/08/98
E.U.
MARKET
L'EXPRESS
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In the first semester of 1998 the amount of drugs sequestered has gone up by 347%. Marijuana still holds the firts position in these statistics, even if there have also been 450 thousans ecstasy pills sequestered.
000216 24/08/98
E.U. / SPAIN
MARKET
CAMBIO 16
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Jose' Maria Gallera starts his opening editorial this way: If drugs are legalized a lot of havoc will be avoided, and probably many people of the Spanish coast who live off drug dealing will have to earn their money in some other way.
000217 30/08/98
E.U. / SPAIN
MARKET
EL PAIS
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La Atumara, which is on the border between Gibraltar and Morocco, is a city that up to a few years ago lived off cigarette smuggling. Today, the same inhabitants live exclusively off haschish trafficking.
000219 26/08/98
E.U. / UZBEKISTAN
WAR ON DRUGS
LE FIGARO
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A chemical laboratory in the former Soviet Union has accomplished a research commissioned by the UN on a particular fungus that is capable of killing the opium plant. The study has cost 500.000 $.
