ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 4 #40, December 3 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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RUSSIA- Nikolaj Khramov, co-ordinator of the Radical Party, says that a report by the Ministry of Health shows that 90% of AIDS cases are related to the use of injected drugs. The Government, therefore, is responsible of not putting into act harm reduction policies.
ITALY- PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONING ON THE NEGATED USE OF METHADONE IN PRISON
This questioning has been presented by Senator Pietro Milio of the Lista Pannella in relation to what happens to drug addicts in the prisons of Savona and Sanremo.
ITALY- AIDS / THE 1st OF DECEMBER HYPOCRACY
CORA accuses the Minister of Health because although officially prisons guarantee cures for AIDS victims they do not guarantee methadone, which is the key-substance in prevention, for drug addicts.
000369 29/11/98
E.U. / ITALY
CONSUMERS
IL GIORNALE
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A research by the Italian High Institute for Health that has been performed in an area of Rome on behalf of the local SERT (Public Service for Drug Addicts)says that 99,8% of children under 10 is familiar with drugs and alcohol. More researches of the same kind will therefore be performed on other parts of the Capitol city.
000370 28/11/98
E.U. / IRELAND
CRIME
HERALD TRIBUNE
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A Courtof Justice in Dublin has condemned a 34 year old man for the murder of Monica Guerin,a journalist who was well known for her inquiries on crime and drug traffic. The man, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment, pleads himself innocent and admits only to know the drug pushers who actually committed the crime.
000374 25/11/98
E.U. / AUSTRIA / VIENNA
HEALTH
DIE PRESSE
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Vienna's man in charge for Public health, Mr. Rieder, is promoting a research on the benefits that cannabis can bring in curing cancer and AIDS patients.
000378 02/11/98
E.U. / NL
HEALTH
FRANKFURTER
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A research commissioned by the Dutch Government indicates that ecstasy damages the brain. Maybe it does not do so irremediably, but surely for medium and lomg periods of time.
000371 27/11/98
E.U. / GERMANY
INITIATIVE
FRANKFURTER
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The Government of Rhineland-Westphalia has set aside 900.000 DM to create centres for assisting drug addicts and to begin a program of controlled distribution of heroin in 9 cities of the region.
000377 28/11/98
EUROPE / SWITZERL
INITIATIVE
MISCELLANEOUS NEWPAPERS FROM / 28/11 TO 01/12
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73.9% of the citizens who went to vote in the 'Droleg' referenda said NO to a liberalisation of drugs and to their sale and use under state consent. Antiprohibitionism and the fear of becoming an international drug supermarket have won this round.
000372 30/11/98
E.U. / GERMANY
LAWS
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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Regarding the drug question, Germany's new left-wing Government is concentrating more on the aspect of health than on he one of public order. The strategy it is adopting rests upon information, help given to drug addicts through an official recognition of the existing assistance centres and a wider attention to the alcohol and tobacco problem.
000373 25/11/98
E.U. / NL / AMSTERDAM
MARKET
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 25/11 / LIBERATION 26/11 / LE MONDE 28/11
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Owing to their well known tolerant regulations the Dutch have become Europe's experts on the use of cannabis. In Holland, in fact, 100 tons of cannabis are produced every year and gets promoted through initiatives like the 'cannabis cup' (21-28 of November), during which connoisseurs may try 75 differnt kinds of marijuana.
000375 30/11/98
E.U.
WAR ON DRUGS
DER SPIEGEL
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The British police have asked their German, Dutch and Belgian colleagues to help fight the diffusion on the market of new and very dangerous types of ecstasy. This goal will be extremely arduous to accomplish, because the substances in question are, to this day, legal.
000376 30/11/98
ASIA / IRAN
WAR ON DRUGS
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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The White House has officially declared that Iran will soon be cancelled from the list of countries that are indicated as being major drug producers. This decision has also been promoted by Pino Arlacchi, who also says that Iran confiscates 75% of the world production of opium and heroin and has intensified frontier controls with Pakistan and Afghanistan.
000379 28/11/98
AMERICA / COLUMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
THE ECONOMIST
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Many bosses of the Cali cartel are in jail, but many also have been assasinated in prison by their successors. Illegal traffic also involves parts of the army, and the presence of American DEA agents is sometimes seen, maybe not unjustifiedly, as a conspiracy.
HUNGARY-Two thousand people have demonstrated against the proposed law that will punish anyone found in possession of drugs with three years of jail. The Government itself, who is proposing the law, had committed itself to a more liberal stance on the question.
