ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #24, June 21 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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000660 14/06/99
AMERICA / USA / NEW YORK
ADDICTION
HERALD TRIBUNE
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Columbia University is experimenting controlled distribution of heroin to a number of addicts who are paid to collaborate. The aim is to demonstrate that this sort of treatment can actually produce positive results, especially because the addicts do not go back to the illegal market.
000652 09/06/99
ASIA / LEBANON
CRIME
LIBERATION
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Four judges had just begun a series of investigations on various drug related crimes have been assassinated in the Court House. Lebanese sources say that this is a pre-meditated crime.
000659 10/06/99
E.U. / GB
HEALTH
THE TIMES
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Every pound spent in treating drug addicts represents a saving of three pounds which would have had to be spent to fight drug-related crimes. This is especially true for house robberies and car thefts, says the National Treatment Outcome Research.
000648 09/06/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
INITIATIVE
MISCELLANEOUS FROM 09/06 TO 15/06
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54.5% of those who voted approved the referenda that will allow controlled distribution of heroin for serious cases of addiction. Most of the consensus comes from the cities, which are most hit the drug phenomenon. The medical prescription of drugs is in will be carried out in compliance with international anti drug conventions.
000649 09/06/99
E.U. / ITALY
INITIATIVE
MISCELLANEOUS FROM 09 TO 15/06
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The Italian League Against AIDS (LILA) is asking the Government to introduce State heroin also in Italy. The LILA has presented this request after having appreciated the results obtained over the past 5 years in Switzerland, which were also positively confirmed with the recent referenda. They suggest that the experimentation of such a plan should be left to the High Institute of Health.
000653 14/06/99
E.U. / ITALY
JUSTICE
IL GIORNALE
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A sixty three old man killed his son with two gun shots after being asked for money again to buy drugs. Nothing could be done to save the boy. It is probable that the man, if recognised guilty, will be granted the benefit of extenuating circumstances.
000650 16/06/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
LAWS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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The Supreme Court has sentenced to sell Ecstasy is not a worst crime than selling any other type of drug.
000654 11/06/99
E.U, / NL
MARKET
DIE PRESSE / FRANKFURTER
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A report by the Kalsbeek parliamentary commission says that between '93 and '96 some Dutch policemen were among the country's most active drug traffickers. They managed to facilitate the importation of 15.000 kilos of cocaine.
000655 12/06/99
E.U. / GERMANY /
MARKET
FRANKFURTER
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Customs officers say that the Duesseldorf airport has become the central distribution point for Ecstasy trafficking from Holland to America.
000656 10/06/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
MARKET
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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Although disapproving of drugs, the Colombian government will include cocaine, heroin and marijuana production in the sum of its yearly national balance. This news is from an official announcement of the Minister of Finances, J.C. Restrepo.
000657 11/06/99
E.U. / ITALY
ORGANIZATIONS
IL MESSAGGERO
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The Digos police division of Bologna arrested 23 people who were trafficking in drugs. The money made with this commerce sent to Algeria and Morocco, probably to finance Islamic terrorism.
000658 14/06/99
E.U. / NL
PRODUCTION
DER SPIEGEL
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Holland is the world's biggest Ecstasy producer. The many illegal chemical laboratories represent a serious danger for the environment.
000651 16/06/99
AMERICA / BRAZIL
TRAFFICKERS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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The Police have discovered a large cocaine traffic organised by an American who, at the head of a criminal group, was able to recruit Brazilian Air Force officers. The drugs, hidden away in aeroplane luggage spaces, were smuggled in to France and Spain.
000661 10/06/99
AMERICA / USA
WAR ON DRUGS
DIE ZEIT
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After the failure of using pesticides, the USA Government has decided to use special parasites to destroy poppy plantations. The objection to this is that biological warfare could also damage other kinds of plants, and that the problem of fighting synthetic drugs remains still unresolved.
