ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #8, February 27 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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BURMA - Many countries, among which also Italy, don't want to participate in the UN Conference on Drugs. They want to avoid legitimization of the local Government. Italy, nonetheless, is not taking any serious step. On the contrary, the Secretary of the DS (Left-wing Democrats) party has met with a delegation of the Burma military regime. What could have they said to each other?
ITALY- PIEDMONT- The CORA has deposited an account of facts in all the CourtHouses of the region. Why isn't the law on public services for drug addicts been applied, and why are methadone treatments being negated?
ITALY-- A number of VIPs from the religious and journalistic world have participated in a high fashion show organized against drugs. The CORA replies that fancy clothes are of no use. Prohibitionism has failed, the King is naked, and so are them.
000497 18/02/99
E.U.
ADDICTION
EL PAIS
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In an interview Gerges Estevienart says that cocaine is an expanding market for all those people who don't consider themselves real addicts, like heavy drinkers. Use of synthetic drugs, especially of 4MTA, which is hard to track down, is rising among young people. Use of heroin, with its million consumers in the Europeaan Union, is stable.
498 24/02/99
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CONSUMERS
EL PAIS, HERALD TRIBUNE / NEUE ZUERCHER Z. / LIBERATION, SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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The UN Agency on Drugs has released the news that in 1998 use of hashish has risen and that in northern America smoking heroin is becoming a frequent phenomenon. Also the use of synthetic drugs has gone up toghether with that of stimulants and tranquilizers in such a quantity that no therapeutic use can be justified.
000499 22/02/99
E.U. / SPAIN
JURISPRUDENCE
EL PAIS
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Having seen the penal irrelevancy of the act, the Tribunal Supremo has established that drug consumption among a group of addicts does not constitute a crime. The crime is instead committed when drugs are offered to someone who is not an addict.
000496 18/02/99
AMERICA / CUBA
LAWS
NEUE ZUERCHER Z. 18/02 / LE MONDE 19/02
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The Cuban Parliament has approved a law that introduces the death penalty for posessing, producing and trafficking drugs.
000500 24/02/99
ASIA / MYAMAR / RANGOON
MARKET
FRANKFURTER
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The Fourth Interpol Conference on Heroin Traffic is being boycotted by many western countries that don't want to give the local military regime a chance to gain worldwide attention. This absence has been criticised by the delegates of 28 Asian countries. They say that especially the USA and Great Britain, where consumption of drugs is so high, should collaborate.
000501 25/02/99
ASIA / AFGHANISTAN
PRODUCERS
PANORAMA
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With the 'Theology Students' in power, Afghanistan has become the world's number one heroin producer. It is this business that keeps arms traffic and an endless war going on. In the meanwhile the UN and various humanitarian organisations have evacuated Kabul, leaving the population to its dreadful destiny.
000502 20/02/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
THE ECONOMIST
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While the US ambassador says that the American anti-drug policy in Colombia is a wasted effort, the Colombian Government recieves a good will certificate for collaborating in the war on drugs. This policy is not only followed by the DEA, but also by the CIA and various Republican representatives. Nonetheless the coca plantations are still growing, in every sense.
