ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #10, March 15 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 great praises for the Iranian regime that Mr. Pino Arlacchi manifested in an interview to the Corriere della Sera are pure monstrosities. They are generated by his unawareness of how the death penalty is used in that country and how heroin that arrives on the European market passes through Iran.
000523 03/03/99
E.U. / FRANCE
ADDICTION
LIBERATION
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Dr. Kamel Abdennbi, a cardiologist and expert in diseases related to tobacco smoking, says that cigarettes are just like heavy drugs and that their cost in terms of public health is extremely high. This is why, he says, disintoxication from tobacco should be refunded by the State.
000522 04/03/99
E.U. / GERMANY
HEALTH
FRANKFURTER 04,05,06/03 / DER SPIEGEL 08/03
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Methadone is now under the spotlight. The official report on drugs says that in 1998 deaths for methadone overdose have risen. There are two principal causes to this situation: a generalised inexperience of practicioners and the black market. The latter is favoured by permissive rules like the one of multiple dosages or the one that does away with having to keep obligatory lists of patients.
000527 08/03/99
E.U. / PORTUGAL
INITIATIVE
EL PAIS
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In Portuguese prisons 70 % of the convicts are drug addicts, 11% are positive to the AIDS test, 3% actually have ADIS and 25% have hepatitis. The Defensor del Pueblo, having seen these figures, asks for 'a depenalisation of personal use of drugs inside and outside the prisons'.
000528 08/03/99
E.U. / SPAIN
INITIATIVE
EL PAIS
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Gonzalo Robles, of the Plan Nacional sobre Drogas, has officially rejected the Andalusian project for controlled distribution of heroin. He says that heroin is not a valid therapeutic alternative, minimizes the results of other experiments in that direction and agrees with the prudent attitude of the OMS.
000529 09/03/99
EUROPE / SWITZERL
INITIATIVE
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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The Government has established very strict criteria for conducting its plan of controlled distribution of heroin. Patients have to be 18 years old or older (up to now the youngest were 20); they must have been heroin addicts for at least two years; they must have tried and failed with other therapies and, finally, show visible signs of physical, psycological or social distress.
000520 07/03/99
E.U. / ITALY / SALERNO
JUSTICE
LA STAMPA
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Three Carabinieri in civillian clothes entered a classroom without any notice to handcuff and arrest a boy who had been accused of being a drug pusher.
000521 03/03/99
E.U. / SPAIN
JUSTICE
EL PAIS
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The Tribunal Supremo has established that the crime of drug traffic automatically includes the one of smuggling. Before this decision an investigated person could be tried and condemned for two different crimes.
000524 06/03/99
AMERICA / PARAGUAY
WAR ON DRUGS
THE ECONOMIST
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In Paraguay the economic situation has been worsened by the Brazilian crisis. At the same time Paraguay remains a major marijuana producer and an important passage point for Bolivian cocaine travelling towards Europe.
000525 05/03/99
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WAR ON DRUGS
FINANCIAL TIMES
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The UN Global Programme Against Money Laundering, in Vienna, proposes to form a 'league' of offshore centres that should have international recognition and standard ways to control financial flows.
000526 05/03/99
E.U. / GB
WAR ON DRUGS
FINANCIAL TIMES
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The British Government has asked that more severe rules be adopted to prevent money laundering in its former colonies. In the Virgin Islands 47% of the State balance comes from financial services, but only 3% is spent according to law. In Turks and Caicos only seven people are in charge of about 13 thousand banks and companies.
000530 10/03/99
ASIA / IRAN
WAR ON DRUGS
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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During the occasion of President Khatami's visit to Italy, the UN anti-drug delegate Pino Arlacchi said: 'Teheran knows how to change, and it has demonstrated this with its commitment to fight drugs'. 'The Ayatollahs are dependable people, the UN should guarantee fairness for the change of power in Iran'.
000519 08/03/99
AMERICA / BOLIVIA
WAR ON DRUGS
NEWSWEEK
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Even though Colombia has recieved a 'certificate' from the USA for its commitment to fight drugs, the presence of traffickers and coca plantations is still consistent. US and Colombian agents have arrested 19 members of an organisation worth 100 million Usd and that controled its trafficking via Internet.
ITALY- The new anti drug campaign can start thanks to state funding. 75% of ten billion Lire will be divided between the Regions, while the rest will be spent for Government projects.
