ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #4, Juanuary 28 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 - THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS OF THE D'ALEMA GOVERNMENT
They have been worst than the whole two years of the preceding Government, also a left- wing one. The D'Alema Government chooses not to see the effects of prohibitionism, chooses not to hear the many requests of new policies, does not act promptly and is ignorant about the drug question in general.
000465 23/01/99
E.U. / ITALY
ADDICTION
IL SOLE 24 ORE
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The State and the Regions have agreed to find new ways of figthing drugs (including the new synthetic ones), thruogh rehabilitation and prevention, and by using public and private funds.
000463 24/01/99
AMERICA / USA
HEALTH
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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A research of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimora says that even one pill of ecstasy can damage the central nervous systyem.
000464 29/01/99
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HEALTH
PANORAMA
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The magazine New Scientist says that using drugs alters our immunity defenses. If this is true of heroin, alcohol and marijuana, it is still not quite clear what cocaine and ecstasy do, these drugs being at one time stimulants and inhibitors.
000468 26/01/99
E.U. / SPAIN
INITIATIVE
EL PAIS
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'Iniciativa per Catalunya - Verds' has presented a project for depenalising consumption of hashish. According to them it is enough to change an ambiguous phrase in the law on drugs, which says that consumption of a moderate quantity is tolerated whilst detention is punished.
000458 21/01/99
E.U. / SPAIN
JURISPRUDENCE
EL PAIS
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A year in prison and a 700 peseta fine have been inflicted to a person for having sold 2 grams of hashish. Spanish lawyers consider this sentence of the Provincial Court totally out of prorportion with the crime.
000467 26/01/99
E.U. / FRANCE
JURISPRUDENCE
LE FIGARO
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The Minister of health, Bernard Kouchner, says that cannabis users should be punished with a simple fine. The magistrates of the Court of Nanterre are instead still in favour of penal sanctions.
000459 28/01/99
E.U. / ITALY
JUSTICE
PANORAMA
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The volume of business that circulates around drug traffic is esteemed to be of abt. 50 thousand billion lire. These, put toghther with the 30-40 thousand billion lire made thruogh prostitution and the 20 thousand of various other illegal activities, represent 7% of Italy's national internal product.
000469 26/01/99
E.U.
MARKET
FRANKFURTER
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Kat is a drug that is used almost exclusively by Africans and Yemenites. It is legal in Holland and illegal in Germany.In fact the German frontier officers have great difficulty in stopping its entrance from Holland.
000461 22/01/99
E.U. / FRANCE
PREVENTION
LIBERATION
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The new anti drugs and anti AIDS campaign that is being planned by the Government will be based more on real life facts and authentic testimonies rather than on vague slogans or stereotypes.
000462 27/01/99
ASIA / BURMA
PRODUCERS
LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR
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The fourth Interpol Conference on Heroin will take place in Burma, which is the first world producer of opium since the military have been in power. Indeed a good image boost for the Burma dictatorship.
000460 21/01/99
E.U. / GERMANY
PRVENTION
FRANKFURTER
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The opposition criticises the Government for having stopped supporting the 'No power to drugs' campaign. They suspect that Ministries involved are planning to legalise hashish.
000466 28/01/99
E.U. / ITALY
TRAFFIC
L'ESPRESSO
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The new Albanese mafia now controls crime in the streets of Milan, including robberies, prostitution and heroin traffic. In order to finance the civil war in Albania, they work in agreement with the Sicilian and Calabrese mafia. These are declarations of Adriatic H, an Albanese boss who has decided to collaborate with the police.
