ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #17, April 29 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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000588 29/04/99
E.U. / ITALY
CONSUMERS
PANORAMA
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Cobret is a new drug made with heroin that has been cut with other toxic substances. To be consumed it must be heated up and then inhaled. Being rather inexpensive (10-20.000 lire per dose), it seems to be most used drug among young people in Naples. The drug as already reached Rome and is slowly moving towards the Northen regions of Italy.
000589 23/04/99
E.U. / GB
CONSUMERS
THE TIMES
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The expulsion of four thousand students a year from British schools is a phenomenon related to the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drugs. This is what a research by the Right Reponses says, which invites all teachers to adopt expulsion of a student only as a last measure.
000594 28/04/99
E.U.
HEALTH
FRANKFURTER
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Dangerous environmental pollution deriving from the dispersion of waste products in the production of synthetic drugs is a problem that was affronted during the 'Ecstasy and Environment' symposium, in Einndhoven (NL).
000595 27/04/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
HEALTH
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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Free distribution of hypodermic needles in prisons reduces the spreading of Hiv contagion among prisoners without however encouraging drug consumption. This is what a research by the Ministry of Health says.
000596 28/04/99
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HEALTH
FINANCIAL TIMES
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The General director of the World Health Organisation has inaugurated a new policy against cigarette smoking: tobacco must be considered as any other drug. During a meeting in Berlin he said that cigarettes are dangerous products and that the tobacco companies have created and continue to support nicotine addiction.
000591 21/04/99
E.U. / SPAIN
INITIATIVE
EL PAIS
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There is disagreement between the Plan Nacional Sobra Drogas and the Andalusian Government. The Pnd, which is examining a Catalunian plan for controlled distribution of heroin, has judged the Andalusian plan as not being serious.
000590 22/04/99
E.U. / SPAIN
JURISPRUDENCE
EL PAIS
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The consitutional Court has annulled nine drug traffic sentences that were based on police interception of phone calls. The reason of the cancelling of those sentences is that the right to privacy is guaranteed by the Spanish Constitution and by the European Court for The Rights of Mankind.
000593 27/04/99
E.U. / FRANCE
PREVENTION
LE FIGARO
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Polemics are rising between producers of alcoholic beverages and the National Association for Prevention of Alcoholism. The alcohol lobbies disagree on how the Government heath program puts drugs and alcohol on the same level of dangerousness. The ANPA accuses those lobbies giving a distorted image of the question; they say that moderate use of alcohol is not under discussion.
000592 22/04/99
U.E. / FINLAND
WAR ON DRUGS
LE FIGARO
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In 1998 there as been a worrisome growth of crime in Finland. Thefts have risen by 30% drug related crimes by 10% and personal offences by 10%.
