ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 6 #, February 11 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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000479 04/02/99
E.U. / ITALY
CONSUMERS
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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A research by the Superior Institute of Health says that among young people one out of four has smoked a joint at least once, and one out of twenty has sniffed cocaine.
000480 07/02/99
E.U. / GB
CONSUMERS
THE TIMES
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A Government report says that crack users that are over 50 years old have doubled in 1997. It seems that they use this drug to feel young and to reduce phisical pain and depression.
000482 05/02/99
E.U. / NL
INITIATIVE
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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On the third of February the Dutch Parliament has approved the beginning of an experiment of controlled distribution of heroin directed to 750 critical addiction cases. This widens the program started in summer 1998.
000483 06/02/99
E.U. / ITALY / VENICE
INITIATIVE
IL MESSAGGERO 06-07/02 / CORRIERE DELLA SERA 07/02
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While the organizers of 'Forum Droghe' say that in Europe programs of controlled distribution of heroin are gathering lots of success, the Italian Minister of Justice participates at their congress by sending a message that simply says 'repression is not the only answer', and the Minister of Social Solidarity reconfirms her opposition to those methods.
000481 05/02/99
E.U. / SPAIN
JURISPRUDENCE
EL PAIS
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Inviting someone to consume any kind of drug is a crime and is punishable with imprisonment. This is what the Tribunal Supremo withholds, confirming a first degree sentence.
000484 05/02/99
ASIA
WAR ON DRUGS
FRANKFURTER
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China, Laos, Myamar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Japan have decided to intensifie collaboration against drug traffic. Pino Arlacchi, although, has criticised Japan for its structural and organisational deficiencies, and has asked that it enacts more severe laws.
000485 08/02/99
E.U.
WAR ON DRUGS
DER SPIEGEL
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Up to this day drug traffickers were hunted by sea, air and road. Having seen the insuccess of this, UE Custom Officials are planning to concentrate on railways. They are convinced that Asiatic drugs travel on trucks and are then put on trains just before they have to pass the frontiers.
000486 09/02/99
AMERICA / USA
WAR ON DRUGS
FINANCIAL TIMES / SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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The Government is committed to reduce the drug problem to half within year 2007. This will cost, only this year, 18 billion USD. The plan stands on five principles: informing young people, diminishing the number of addicts, breaking the tie between drugs and crime, stregthening frontier controls and reducing supply.
