ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #23, June 14 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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ITALY - With the beginning of the summer holidays there are more anti drug controls on the part of the Excise Police, to limit the illegal market that follows tourism. This is what is already happening in the harbours and airports of Sardinia, and at the Bologna airport which is a major travel link towards the Adriatic coast summer resorts.
ITALY - Alessandro Margara, former director of the Italian Jail Administration, said in an interview for Radio Radicale: "If the answer to the drug problem, which is a large social phenomenon, is only that of hard and repressive legislation, we will continue to have overpopulated jails".
000646 04/06/99
AMERICA / BRASIL
CONSUMERS
IL MESSAGGERO
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Marijuana beer without hallucinogenic effects. This is a new product made with marijuana freed of its active principle and used to ferment 'Maria Juana'.
000647 11/06/99
E.U. / GB
HEALTH
L'ESPRESSO
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A study performed by the University of Sonderland through a series of voluntary verbal tests says that cannabis consumers have an altered memory condition during their speech, while ecstasy consumers have a total loss of speech duration altogether.
000644 03/06/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
INFORMATION
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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Criticism expressed by the WHO regarding the Swiss project of controlled distribution of heroin was rebutted by Martin Killias, member of the team behind the project.
He says that the whole thing has been judged a prohibitionist slant, and this explains why so much data on achieved crime reduction has been simply disregarded.
Furthermore, there have been diverging opinions within the WHO itself.
000645 06/06/99
E.U. / NL / AMSTERDAM
WAR ON DRUGS
EL PAIS
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Amsterdam could lose its famous tolerance. The police is enforcing a new era of order, against 'urban chaos', by turning the screw on tramps and drug addicts.
