ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #18, May 10 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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director: Vincenzo Donvito
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ITALY- Trent - The CORA is protesting because the account of facts they presented about the malfunctioning of local public services for drug addicts is going to be archived by the Magistrate who is in charge of the case. The CORA says that this is an unjustified imposition and a slap in the face of all those addicts who only want to defend their right to receive decent cures.
ITALY - Orvieto - The Police entered two high schools with trained dogs looking for drugs and denounced ten students. The same kind of operation was carried out in the local train station, at the arrival of commuting students.
000599 29/04/99
E.U. / FRANCE
ADDICTION
LE FIGARO / LIBERATION
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40% of Parisian high school students have used cannabis at least once in their lives. This is what emerges from a research by the Observatory on Drugs carried out in 1995 on 875 high schools. What seems evident in comparison to earlier researches is that cannabis consumption is undergoing a 'normalising' phase.
000600 29/04/99
ASIA / ISRAEL
ADDICTION
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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The National Association Against Drugs says that young religious Israelis are accustomed to consuming heavy drugs like LSD, while laymans of the 4 same age tend to use cannabis instead. The Russian immigration has also introduced another peculiar drug: shooting vodka directly in the veins.
000603 03/05/99
ASIA / KUWAIT
ADDICTION
DIE PRESSE
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If on one hand the Iraqi invasion of eight years ago seems to not have left any trace, on the other the sense of shock and fear lingers on. Young people are trying to overcome these feelings by using drugs. A research says that 44% of young Kuwaitis have tried using them, while the official number of drug addicts is between 15.000 and 30.000.
000597 28/04/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
LAWS
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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On the 13th of June will be able to vote in a referenda to decide whether or not to do away with controlled distribution of heroin from the new law on drugs, which is being at the moment revised.
000598 29/04/99
EUROPE
MARKET
DIE PRESSE
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The Police heads of 17 countries from the European Union and from the Balkans have met in Austria to discuss about drug traffic. It seems that 80% of the heroin that is sold in western and central Europe arrives through the Balkans.
000601 01/05/99
E.U. / ITALY
TRAFFIC
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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In September the trial against a group of Kosovar traffickers headed by an Albenese politician, Ritvan Peshkepia, will start. Many of those people justified themselves at the moment of their arrest by saving they were trafficking in drugs to fund the cause of freedom in Kosovo.
000602 03/05/99
ASIA / THAILAND
TRAFFIC
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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The Nation, a Bangkok newspaper, has sounded an alarm: the army of the united Wa is about to become the new drug boss of the Golden Triangle. This thanks to its steady collaboration with the Government of Burma.
