ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #22, June 3 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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000638 28/05/99
E.U. / SPAIN
ADDICTION
EL PAIS
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Official figures show that 2,5% of young Spaniards between 14 and 18 have taken ecstasy. Out of these, 20% admit they have driven under the effects on the drug, and 50% say they have been passengers in cars driven by people under exactas.
000643 30/05/99
E.U. / FRANCE
ADDICTION
LE MONDE
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The Otris (Drug Traffic repression Office) figures for 1998 confirm three tendencies: there have been less deaths for overdose; less use of cannabis among minors; and a growth of multiple addictions (i.e. those from mixing legal and illegal substances).
000639 29/05/99
E.U. / GB
CONSUMERS
THE ECONOMIST
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There has been a lot of discussion about the fact that during a television programme rugby player Lawrence Dallaglio was publicly denounced of using cocaine. The sanction for personal use of cocaine is the same as the one for not payng a car park, and it doesn't grow in case of relapse.
000637 31/05/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
HEALTH
DER SPIEGEL
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Paul Parin, the 83 year old ethnologist and psychiatrist, declares himself an anti prohibitionist. He is in favour of any substance, including heroin, that will calm physical and mental pain in elderly people.
000630 28/05/99
E.U. / SPAIN
INITIATIVE
EL PAIS
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What model to follow in the program of controlled distribution of heroin and how to handle it will be decided by a commission of 21 experts.
000631 29/05/99
E.U. / GERMANY
INITIATIVE
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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The Green Party says that the time has come to see hashish consumption under a new light. It is time that it be legalised.
000640 31/05/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
INITIATIVE
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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From a report on the first three years of activity in two centres for controlled distribution of heroin: many patients have already achieved a great result just in that they have managed to stabilise their condition as a chronic one; others try total abstinence from drugs, but there is to say that here gradual therapy is not used as much as it is in rehabilitation centres.
000629 28/05/99
E.U. / FRANCE / PARIS
JURISPRUDENCE
LE FIGARO
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The three organisers of the '18 joint' demonstration, which was held on the 22.nd of June 1997, have been condamned to pay fines ranging from 5000 to 10000 FF.
000633 28/05/99
AMERICA / CANADA
LAWS
LIBERATION
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With 204 votes against 29 the House of Commons approved a motion which asks the Government to legalise therapeutic use of marijuana, and the Police be more tolerant towards who uses or grows cannabis for medical purposes.
000632 27/05/99
E.U. / GB
LEGALISATION
THE TIMES
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David Hockney, the famous British artist who is now living in California, during a meeting at the Royal Art Academy pronounced himself in favour of legalisation of marijuana and cocaine. Nonetheless he said that when he is creating 'art and drug's don't mix'
000641 01/06/99
E.U. / GB
MARKET
THE TIMES
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The Interpol has announced that 1.7 tons of heroin were sequestered last year in Britain, the biggest quantity ever among all the western European countries. In USA the largest amount of sequestered heroin was of 1.5 tons.
000642 28/05/99
AMERICA
MARKET
FINANCIAL TIMES
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The USA Government says that the campaign for eradicating coca plantations has achieved succes, together with the help to South American farmers for converting their crops. Nonetheless the drug cartels still manage to move their production sites elsewhere, and drug addictions is growing also in these countries.
000634 27/05/99
E.U.
PREVENTION
FRANKFURTER
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These are the proposals for fighting drugs that the European Commission has presented to the Member States: co-operation between police forces to reduce drug demande and offer; homogeneous criteria in establishing sanctions; priority to figting synthetic drugs.
000635 27/05/99
E.U. / GB
PREVENTION
IL GIORNALE
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An English firm is making a portable detector that is capable of telling whether a person has used drugs by analysing a drop of his or hers saliva.
000636 26/05/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
PREVENTION
THE TIMES 26/05 / NEUE ZUERCHER Z. 27/05
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Jack Cunningham, responsible for the anti drug campaigns, has announced stronger initiatives for the next ten years. There will be more information in schools and more assistance for drug addicts. This even if drugs are being consistently sequestred by the police and even if they are always more available, of better quality and at cheaper prices.
