ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #21, May 27 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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Giulio Manfredi, of the CORA, says that the Turin meeting "Nuove Droghe" could be useful to introduce effective prevention policies regarding the new synthetic drugs. He openly disagrees with the municipal councillor Mr. D'Ambrosio, who is against both
The anti prohibitionists have launched an appeal to the candidates for European Parliament in favour of de-penalisation of all drugs and of legalisation of light drugs. They also ask for more effective harm reduction strategies and for a reform of international agreements. Forum Droghe, the association who is sponsoring the appeal, hopes that the forthcoming elections will represent a turning point towards more human and tolerant policies.
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ADDICTION
L'ESPRESSO
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Modern pharmacology is making considerable progress in the battle against drug addiction. Pills against cocaine, heroin, alcohol and cigarettes have in fact been launched on the market. These medicines act directly on the molecules of the brain that cause the craving.
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E.U. / SPAIN
INITIATIVE
EL PAIS 20-25/05 / CAMBIO 16 21/05
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Andalusia and Catalunia are waiting for the Ministry of Health to approve their plans for controlled distribution of heroin. In the meantime the Uncdp (the UN supervising office on drugs) has invited the two governmentes to not imitate the Swiss plan.
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E.U. / ITALY / ROME
JUSTICE
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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The Court of Cassation has accepted the state of anger and stress that drove a father to kill his heroin addict daughter as a valid extenuatory circumstance. It seems that the girl had been an addict for twenty years.
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E.U. / GB
JUSTICE
THE TIMES
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MP Paul Flynn has condemned the decision of imprisoning a arthritic man who was condemned to 12 months for having held a conference on the therapeutic use of cannabis. The sentence had not been enforced up to this day.
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E.U. / GB
PREVENTION
THE TIMES
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The Eton prevention programme against drug circulation in schools has achieved the result of seven student expulsion in four years, thus reducing noticeably the phenomenon.
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E.U. / NL
WAR ON DRUGS
CAMBIO 16
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The novelist Larry Collins explains his contrariety to legalisation of light drugs by citing the policy that is adopted in Holland. It has been a failure, in his opinion.
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AMERICA / USA
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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Thomas Constantine, for the past five years director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, has publicly announced his intentions to retire. He has also put everyone on notice about the dangers represented by the infiltration of Mexican drug traffickers in the USA.
