ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #14, April 8 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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SWITZERALND - A research by the magazine 'Beobatcher' says that 52% of the Swiss population is not against smoking joints. They nevertheless think that cultivation and selling of cannabis should be punished.
000572 02/04/99
ASIA / THAILAND
ADDICTION
LIBERATION
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The drug most used by young in Thailand is the 'Ya Ma' metamphetamine. The Anti Narcotics Agency says that in 1998 out of a total of 7 milion drug addicts 3 milion were Ya Ma consumers. Up to now 32 milion Ya Ma pills have been sequestered while 200 milion are still on the market.
000569 31/03/99
E.U. / SPAIN
HEALTH
EL PAIS
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The Minister of Health has authorised the use of Laam (Levo Alpha Acetil Methadol) as a valid alternative to methadone tratments.
000571 05/04/99
E.U. / GERMANY
HEALTH
DER SPIEGEL
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It seems that by now hundreds of thousands of cancer and AIDS patients use cannabis to relieve pain or to gain weight. This is one of the reason that have convinced the Government to reopen the question of its legalisation.
000570 28/03/99
ASIA /
TRAFFICKERS
CAMBIO 16
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The political instability of various Asiatic countries has changes the traditional routes used by drug traffickers. 80% of the heroin consumed in Europe and 20% of that consumed in the USA is produced in Afghanistan and costs ten times more than cocaine. This colossal business is worth a gross 400 milion Usd, and half of this money is laundered in a thousand banks around the world.
