ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #20, May 20 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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000621 18/05/99
ASIA / CHINA
ADDICTION
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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Under the regime of Mao Zedong drugs and prostitution seemed to have been abolished. During the new course, although, drugs have reappeared in China with the spreading of their consumption and of AIDS. The Chinese government has realised this and is tryng to react through repression and reeducation.
000614 13/05/99
E.U. / GB
CURIOUS FACTS
IL MESSAGGERO
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Britain is planning to build two houses in Bury St Edmunds by using hemp as a construction material. It's a good insulator and can be easily recycled. The walls of the houses will be fire proof, so there's no risk anyone will try to smoke them ...
000619 17/05/99
E.U. / SPAIN
INITIATIVE
EL PAIS
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The Government is about to agree with the Andalusian Junta on an experimental programme of controlled distribution of heroin. This is an important step forward, especially after all the discussion between parties, prohibitionist, the Plan Nacional Sobre Drogas and the Andalusian Government, which is promoter of the whole project.
000615 14/05/99
E.U. / ITALY
JUSTICE
IL SOLE 24 ORE
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The general anti-Mafia prosecutor, Mr. Pierluigi Vigna, said during a debate in Naples that there have been over 1700 denunciations of possible dirty money laundering. Of these, 90% come from banks, while there is an almost total silence on the part of stock broker companies.
000616 20/05/99
E.U. / ITALY
JUSTICE
L'ESPRESSO
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The Office of the Public Prosecutor for minors of the region of Lombardy says that juvenile delinquency has been consistently growing in these recent years. In the town of Lecco parents found a Kilo of marijuana in the backpack of their fifteen year old son, and this led to discovery of an juvenile drug pushing racket. Furthermore, there have been many drug related violence cases in various schools of the region.
000617 15/05/99
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JUSTICE
HERALD TRIBUNE
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A report by the National Institute of Justice says that in Britain, as in United States, drugs are the most important vehicle factor towards crime. In Great Britain 55% of arrested people have used drugs, 9% specifically amphetamines or heroin. In USA 40% of the arrested resulted positive to crack and cocaine tests.
000620 18/05/99
E.U. / GERMANY
MARKET
FRANKFURTER
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Psylocibin, an active substance found in a variety of mushrooms, is one of the world's most ancient hallucinogenic. In Germany it is being sold in little perfumed pillows and is gaining an ever growing success. In 1998 it had been catalogued as an illegal substance.
000618 13/05/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
TRAFFIC
LE MONDE
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Between 1991 and 1998 the Colombian guerrilla has made about 5.3 billion dollars from drug traffic, robberies and extortion. This is what a report of the Bogota State Army says.
