ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #13, April 1 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 - After the declarations of the Major of Milan the CORA is tying to encourage him to transform those words into political stances. The CORA confides in the fact that this opinion is also supported by tens of administrators and police officers who work in the Major's staff.
ITALY - A Ministerial decree has been enacted which regulates assistance to AIDS patients. Unfortunately it is capable of satisfying only 3 or 4% of addicted patients in jail who are waiting for methadone treatments. This goes against the principle that all people are in title to a good state of health.
During the Geneva conference on harm reduction it was said that for a drug addict the risk of overdose during the first week after being released from jail is eight times greater than that undergone by addicts that have not been in jail. This is why a serious harm reduction policy is necessary also in prisons. In Italian prisons, where 30% of the prisoners are drug addicts, there still is no available methadone treatment.
000560 01/04/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
CONSUMERS
L'ESPRESSO
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Shops where can buy everything made with cannabis, from pasta to closet deodorants are opening almost everywhere in Switzerland. And Italians queue up to buy those products.
000564 25/03/99
ASIA / THAILAND
HEALTH
EL PAIS
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The UN will experiment for the first time a vaccine against AIDS on 2500 drug addicts who have not been infected by the HIV virus.
000565 25/03/99
E.U. / GB
HEATH
THE TIMES
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The Institute of Personnel and Development has performed a research on the abuse of alcohol, drugs and tobacco during working hours. 46% of the firms that were interviewed has had news about alcohol abuse on the part of their emploees; 18% knows also about drug abusage. These figures three years ago were respectively 35 and 15%.
000561 29/03/99
E.U. / GB
JUSTICE
THE TIMES
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The Minister of Interior, asked by a Court of Justice, answered that deportation of drug traffickers is a feasible solution in some cases, depending on the gravity of the crimes they have committed.
000562 25/03/99
E.U. / AUSTRIA
LAWS
DIE PRESSE
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A research conducted in Autumn '98 on 1.085 people over 16 year old shows that the Austrians want more severe repression of crimes such as rape, violence in the family, drunken driving and drug trafficking.
000563 26/03/99
E.U. / ITALY
LAWS
IL GIORNALE, IL MESSAGGERO / LA REPUBBLICA
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The Major of Milan, Gabriele Albertini, says that he tried smoking a joint when he was young and the prohibiting use of cannabis is certainly a bad solution to the drug problem. That of the General Prosecutor of Milan, Francesco Saverio Borrelli, who says that restrictive regulations can inflate the problem rather than reduce it, immediately echoed his declaration.
000568 08/04/99
E.U. / ITALY
PERSONALITIES
PANORAMA
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Pasquale Centore, a Mafia boss who was capable of dealing drugs with his Colombian rivals, has been arrested by the DIA of Milan. He used to be Major of a town near Caserta.
000566 24/03/99
E.U. / GB
PUSHERS
THE TIMES
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A reportage by The Times says that the Police of three Western European countries, together with Europol, are investigating on the doubtful funding strategies of the Liberation Army of Kosovo: apparently it would include money from drug trafficking.
000567 27/03/99
ASIA / NORTH KOREA
TRAFFICKERS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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The American Ambassador in Seoul says that in an economically desperate North Korea the State, which is in every way a Mafia, would be using its diplomats and their briefcases to illegally export drugs.
