ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #15, April 18 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 general attorneys of Asti and Vercelli are investigating on an account of facts presented by the CORA which shows how public services for drug addicts are not working as they should, especially regarding methadone distribution. The Judiciary Police has heard two members of the CORA.
000575 08/04/99
E.U. / NL / ROTTERDAM
ADDICTION
FRANKFURTER
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An indipendent association of drug addicts says that some workers of a company that employs addicts for part-time jobs and that in part funded by the city could have received drugs in the place of their salary.
000576 13/04/99
E.U. / PORTUGAL
INITIATIVE
EL PAIS
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The Portuguese Government has decided to support those companies and cities that employ drug addicts who are in the course of rehabilitation. The State will thus cover 80% of the minimum salaries and the social needs for those addicts.
000573 08/04/99
E.U. / FRANCE
JUSTICE
LE MONDE
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Following the indication of the Ministry of Health, the Law Commission of the Senate has approved an amendment that allows precedures of compromise for consumers of light drugs. It will be possible, among other things, to avoid the penal procedures by simply payng a fine.
000574 08/04/99
E.U. / SPAIN
JUSTICE
EL PAIS
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The Court of Madrid has decided to not comminate charges for smuggling against petty drug carriers. About a hundred imprisoned people, in fact, have their sentence reduced by one or two years.
000577 13/04/99
EUROPE / HUNGARY
LAWS
LIBERATION
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In the end of 1998 Hungary enacted one of the most repressive anti drug laws in Europe. The law foresees life imprisonment for big calibre traffickers and two years for simple drug consumers. The Prime Minister Viktor Orban says: 'Those who use drugs have sealed a pact with the devil'.
000578 13/04/99
E.U. / ITALY
LAWS
LA REPUBBLICA
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The pop group '99 Posse' has been acquitted from the charge of instigating people to use drugs. The group had showed a chilum to their public before playing an anti prohibitionist song.
000579 14/04/99
E.U. / ITALY
LAWS /
IL SOLE 24 ORE
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The Court of Cassation has annulled the forced dismissing of a bank employee from his job. The man had once been a drug addict and his dismissing had been previously approved by the regular court and by the judge.
