ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 4 #29, September 17 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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ITALY/ PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION TIME
Piero Milio, a senator of the Lista Pannella party, addressed a query to the Minister of the Interior whether it was legitimate for the highway police in Perugia to apply, by way of a witch hunt, a urine-analisis test for marijuana not provided for in the road and traffic codes; and to the Minister of Public Health why marijuana should not be used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis , AIDS and cancer, as it is in the Netherlands.
ITALY/ MEMBERS OF THE LEFT-WING DEMOCRATS IN FAVOUR OF LEGALIZATION
The proposed law for the legalisation of light drugs tabled by Representative Gloria Buffo has met with diverse reactions: whilst Representative Riccardo Pedrizzi promises to oppose it and Rep. Giuseppe Fioroni (Partito Popolare) continues to push for more prevention, the CORA goes on recorded as asking why there should be yet another proposal for yet another law when several others are already in the works and awaiting action, such as the one proposed by the CORA in 1994 with the backing of the signatures of fifty thousand citizens.
ITALY/ ITALIAN VICE-PREMIER MEETS PINO ARLACCHI
Walter Veltroni, the Italian Vice-Premier, has had a meeting with Pino Arlacchi, head of the United Nations anti drug activities, and has given approval to the latter's aims and methods. CORA points out that Arlacchi gave recognition to the government of Iran and to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and that he opposes the controlled medical use of heroin. Veltroni's approval is odd because hitherto he has not been favourable towards conventional prohibition - which, however, seems to be contagious.
000237 10/09/98
E.U. / NETHERLAND
HEALTH
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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On the new initiative of the Ministry of Public Health, the nation is about to approve the use of marijuana as a pain killer in multiple sclerosis, AIDS and cancer.
000241 15/09/98
E.U. / SPAIN
INFORMATION
EL PAIS
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The Fundacion de Ayuda contra la Drogaddiccion has come out against the 'normalness' with which society generally accepts drugs . A new Fundacion campaign will seek to induce reflexion among young people and to strengthen prevention programmes.
000233 10/09/98
E.U. / ITALY
INITIATIVE
IL MESSAGGERO
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Representative Gloria Buffo of the New-Left Democrats has launched a campaign to increase public awareness of the need for passage of a proposed law that would legalise the use of ligh drugs.
000242 14/09/98
E.U. / SWITZERLAND
INITIATIVE
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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With thirty - nine ayes against sixteen nays, the Social Democratic Party have voted to allow free-conscience voting by members in the anti-prohibition referendum 'Droleg' on 29th November.
000234 10/09/98
E.U. / GERMANY
LAWS /
DIE ZEIT
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Concerning the imminent federal elections:the drug policy of the conservative Kohl Government has failed but the prospect of a new Government formed by a coalition of Social Democrats and Greens promises nothing new. According to sociologist Guenther Amendt, neither the Right nor the Left have grasped that there is no such thing as a drug-free society.
000243 16/09/98
E.U. / ITALY
LAWS
LA REPUBBLICA
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Ersilia Salvato, vice-president of the Senate, has blamed the government for failure to pass the proposed laws concerning the legalisation of light drugs and improper funding of political parties, whilst however assuring the passage of a law that depenalises minor offences.
000235 11/09/98
E.U. / AUSTRIA / VIENNA
PREVENTION
DIE PRESSE
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Drug Control Co-ordinator Peter Hacker is critical of 'No Drugs' stickers and similar messages distributed in schools. According to him, this constant pneumatic-hammer propaganda only intensifies the problem and defeats the efforts at affective prvention.
000236 17/09/98
E.U. / FRANCE
PRODUCERS
L'ESPRESSO
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According to the police, the number of users of home - grown marijuana is increasing. That way moderate and circumspect users avoid contact with pushers.
000238 17/09/98
ASIA / AFGHANISTAN
WAR ON DRUGS
L'ESPRESSO
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There are early signs of an uprising in the economy af Kabul. In an effort to lessen dependence on the drug trade - at least for show- mines as well as shoe and carpet factories have been reopened and there has been some degree of privatisation.
000239 11/09/98
E.U. / AMERICA / MEXICO
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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Since 1996 the United States have been giving consistent aid to the Mexican government for the implementation of anti-drug programmes. Today, eighty officers of the Mexican Anti-Drug Force stand indicted for corruption and dealing.
000240 13/09/89
E.U. / GB /
WAR ON DRUGS
THE TIMES
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After having smashed a cocaine trail from Panama to the United Kingdom via Ireland, British Police discovered that it was tied directly to the cocaine cartel run by Manuel Noriega, the Panamanian ex-dictator currently serving time in a maximum security prison in Miami, Florida.
COLUMBIA- In spite of the official extirpation programme, the number of cocaine plantations has almost doubled, according to Ruben Olarte, the new head of the American Drug Enforcement Agency.
ITALY- Trent: Charges have been brought against a doctor of the Public Health Service who for over a year fialed to administer adequate doses of methadone to drug addicts who refused internment in a therapeutic (and usually Catholic-Church -operated) commune for drug addicts.
The press secretary of the UN Drug Control Programme has asked us to deny the validity of a news item we received via the daily newspaper Liberation. We have suggested that he readdress his request to Liberation. If it is published there we shall announce the fact.
