ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #2, Juanuary 14 1999
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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 - 1998-2000 NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN AND DRUG ADDICTION
It has been published with a year's delay, and is full of good intentions that have not been followed yet by any concrete action, which is made impossible by the situation of pervasive illegality of the anti prohibitionist laws.
ITALY/FRANCE - SAME HYPOCRICY IN ROME AND PARIS
The Italian and French Governments do not intend to change their anti prohibitionist laws, although they speak of a pragmatic approach to the drug question. The only policies that promote information, responsibility and order are the Dutch and Swiss ones.
ITALY - INAUGURATION OF THE JUDICIAL YEAR
Las t year a change in style had been announced, but this year the new General State Attorney has complained about the fact that keeping drugs for personal use is not a crime anymore. The only way to stop crime related to drugs is to adopt policies that legalise them, and not to enact emergency laws or to suspend constitutional rights.
000441 08/01/99
E.U. / FRANCE
ADDICITION
MISCELLANEOUS
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A special interministerial commission has proposed that alcohol and tobacco be considered on the same level as heavy drugs, while the use of light drugs should be depenalised and punished only with a fine.
000442 08/01/99
E.U. / FRANCE
ADDICITION
LIBERATION
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Bertrand Lebeau, director of the Parmentier methadone center, asks where the new policies on public health and drug addiction that the Prime Minister had publicised have disappeared. He says that time to enact these policies has not run out altogether.
000436 07/01/99
E.U. / NL
ADDICTION
FRANKFURTER
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A research by the University of Rotterdam shows that in Holland the number of habitual hashish consumers is of 323000 people (2,5% of the population), half of what it was thought to be until now.
000437 14/01/99
E.U. / ITALY
ADDICTION
L'ESPRESSO
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Buprenorfine is often used in France as a substitute for heroin. It can be prescribed by general phisicians and because of this the number of addicts that are turning to their family doctor has doubled. In Italy pharmaceutical companies don't seem to be interested in this market.
000432 09/01/99
E.U. / ITALY / MILAN
CRIME
CORRIERE DELLA SERA / IL GIORNALE
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In Milan the Albanese bosses control the drug market together with the local mafia. 74,5% of the Milanese people sees the growing crime as a direct consequence of drug traffic and prostitution, and 60% of them are afaid to go out at night.
000433 08/01/99
E.U. / GERMANY
INITIATIVES
FRANKFURTER / SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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The Health Minister, Andrea Fischer, says that the German Government will soon start a project for controlled distribution of heroin, modelled on the Swiss experience.
000434 09/01/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
INITIATIVES
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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Controlled distribution of heroin and other measures in favour of drug addicts certainly can save human lives. In 1998 there have been 209 deaths realated to drug consumption,31 less than in 1997.
000435 10/01/99
E.U. / FRANCE
INITIATIVES
LE MONDE
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In a press conference Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who will run for the Green party in the June European Elections, said:'If we want anything to change in our city districts, we must cahnge the polcies on drugs'.
000438 07/01/99
E.U. / ITALY
TRAFFIC
IL GIORNALE / THE TIMES
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A lawyer has denounced the Cuban President, Fidel Castro, for international drug traffic. He says he will present the same charge in Italy, Great Britain and Belgium. The denounciation has also been signed by the daughter of a Cuban colonel who was executed for drug traffic in 1989.
000439 14/01/99
AMERICA / USA
TRAFFIC
L'ESPRESSO
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The marines of Camp Pendelton, on the border with Mexico, are involved in cocaine trafficking. 50 of them were arrested last year during an intervention by the DIA. A corporal was arrested for having introduced 14 tons of cocaine in the United States.
000443 16/01/99
AMERICA / COLUMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
THE ECONOMIST
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The USA, by financing with 290 million $ this year various initiatives against drug traffic, are doing their part in the difficult peacemaking process between the guerrilla and the Columbian government.
000444 13/01/99
AMERICA / COLUMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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In Bolivia and Peru coca plantations are diminishing thanks to the collaboration of their governments. In Columbia coca fields are augmenting. The government negotiates peace with the guerrilla, which is allied with the narcos and reluctant to collaborate.The USA supports those policies, which don't make the plantation diminish, and the Columbian army, that has been accused of crimes against human rights.
000445 12/01/99
E.U. / GB /
WAR ON DRUGS
THE TIMES
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Andy Hayman has been appointed by Scotland Yard as Chief Coordinator in the fight against drugs.
