ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #16, April 25 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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000581 15/04/99
U.E. / ITALY
HEALTH
IL GIORNALE
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Convicts who are afflicted by AIDS must not stay in prison. The Italian Senate has approved a law that is supposed to open prison cell for AIDS patients in advanced or terminal phases of the disease. A judge, although, will decide case by case; no freedom for prisoners who are suffering of AIDS.
000580 14/04/99
E.U. / FRANCE
INFORMATION
L'EVENEMENT DU JEUDI
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The head name in the French Green party's electoral list, Mr. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, reopens the drug issue: 'Enough with what has become by now a religious war' -he says 'Down with prohibitionist laws that only favour drug traffic (between 2 and 4 percent of the world's trade), up with lagalisation of light drugs, with substituive therapies and with controlled distribution of heavy drugs'.
000584 19/04/99
E.U. / SPAIN
INFORMATION
EL PAIS
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Jose Guilmon, director of the psychiatry department of the University of Geneva says that great exaggeration about the pros and cons of controlled distribution of heroin lies in the positions of those who are favourable of those who are against. Still he reminds the latter that many diseases are cured with dangerous substances, especially when benefits from their use are greater than the damages.
000585 16/04/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
INITIATIVE
FRANKFURTER
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The conclusions of the World Health Organisation's report on the esperiment of controlled distribution of heroin in Switzerland (performed on 1000 heroin addicts between 1994 and 1996) say that all positive results depend on a bettered assistance, and not on distribution.
000586 20/04/99
E.U. / SPAIN
INITIATIVE
EL PAIS
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The Plan Nacional Sobre Drogas is ready into consideration an experiment of controlled distribution of heroin, but does not approve the project that Andalusia wants to adopt. They say it's too similar to the Swiss one, which has already been negatively judged by the World Health Organisation.
000583 19/04/99
E.U. / GB / SWANSEA
JUISPRUDENCE
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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The court of Swansea has inflicted Nine months of prison for use and cultivation of cannabis to a man who was curing his backaches with marijuana. Nonetheless, many doctors thinks that within three years cannabis will enter Britain's official list of pharmaceutical products.
000582 15/04/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
WAR ON DRUGS
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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A research says that 40% of the Swiss people are in favour of legalising cannabis, 48% are against and 12% are unsure. The most severe prohibitionist opinions are to be found in the French and Italian speaking cantons. Opinions of joung people between the ages of 15 and 34 are equally divided: 46% are in favour and 46% are against.
000587 21/04/99
E.U. / GB / MANCHESTER
WAR ON DRUGS
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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A school in Manchester, not being able to control every day 1500 young people, has started to use a Labrador dog to detect drugs in the student's closets.
