ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #26, July 5 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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000683 27/06/99
E.U. / GB
ADDICTION
CORRIERE DELLA SERA / THE TIMES
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Eric Clapton has sold one of this guitar at an auction for about 650.000 USD. He decided to donate the money to a Carribean clinic that cures drug addicts.
000689 24/06/99
E.U. / SPAIN
ADDICTION
EL PAIS
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Use of alcohol is growing and that of synthetic drugs is diminishing among adolescents between 14 and 18. Hashish still remains the most used illegal drug.
000690 30/06/99
E.U. / FRANCE
ADDICTION
LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR
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In an interview on the theme of alcohol, Professor Claude Got says that if you consider the 30.000 deaths per year; the acts of violence; the abused children; the beaten wives; and the innumerable car accidents, then you can easily say that alcohol is a drug, and a heavy one indeed.
000684 29/06/99
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BEHAVIOUR
THE TIMES
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A research by Tourism Concern and a few university studies say that young tourists nowadays prefer to travel eating pizza and drinking beer, that when abroad they search for drugs and sex, that they known nothing about the countries they visit and that if they can satisfy their needs do not care whether it's on a beach or in a ghetto.
000677 28/06/99
E.U. / ITALY
CONSUMERS
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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The ecstasy phenomenon is thriving on the Adriatic coast, especially in the summer resorts of Romagna. Every Saturday night an average of ten thousand young people search for the new synthetic drug in discos and clubs. The monopoly of this trade in mainly in the hands of Tunisians. Prices are getting lower: each pill is about 25.000 lire.
000687 29/06/99
E.U. / FRANCE / PARIS
DRUG MAFIAS
LE MONDE
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Ileana de la Guardia, daughter of a Colonel who was executed in Cuba after being accused of drug dealing, has denounced Fidel Castro to the Court of Appeal of Paris. Through this initiative she wants to rehabilitate her father's good name, and disclose the undercover relations between the Cuban regime and drug traffickers.
000682 26/06/99
E.U.
HEALTH
IL MESSAGGERO
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The European commission has sounded an alarm: Keep your eyes open for the new 4MTA drug. It is ten times stronger than ecstasy and has caused deaths in Belgium and Great Britain.
000688 29/06/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
HEALTH
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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The Swiss association Friends Of Cannabis is organising a day of events to spread information on the use of special oils and teas made with cannabis. The association also remind those who suffer of chronic diseases and pains that the Swiss law allows to grow and use 'Cannabis Sativa' for medical purpose.
000685 29/06/99
E.U. / FRANCE
INFORMATION
LIBERATION
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Anne Coppel (the Association for Reducing Risks from Drug Use) says that those who use cannabis should not be arrested anymore, mainly because there are other priorities. Unfortunately, if on one hand many policemen and magistrates have already given up -either for personal convinction or for objective difficulties- an ideologically driven repression, on the other the official tendency still reamins unvaried.
000678 25/06/99
E.U. / ITALY
JUSTICE
LA STAMPA
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Giancarlo Caselli, who will be the next general director of the National Jails, said during an official celebration of the Italian jail guards that putting addicts in prison is not a good solution. These people need assistance instead.
000679 25/06/99
E.U. / ITALY
JUSTICE
IL SOLE 24 ORE
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A sentence of the Court of Cassation says that a drug pusher who has reached a settlement on his punishment can keep the money made from selling drugs.
000686 30/06/99
EUROPE / RUSSIA
MARKET
HERALD TRIBUNE
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The Secretary of the Security Council of the Kremlin says that notwithstanding all the efforts that have been made the drug problem in Russia is very critical, especially owing to the growing difficulty of controlling militarily the drugs that enter the country from Central Asia.
000680 24/06/99
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PREVENTION
DIE PRESSE 24/06 / CORRIERE DELLA SERA 26/06
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The Secretary of the UN feels optimistic about the World Day Against Drug because 185 countries share means and collaborate in the war on drugs. The use of psyco pharmaceutical drugs is growing, while in Italy trafficking is always more in the hands of foreigners. Deaths for overdose are nonetheless diminishing.
000681 20/06/99
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PREVENTION
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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The UN delegate against drugs, Mr Pino Arlacchi, is in Iran to assist the ritual bonfire on confiscated drugs. Afghan Talibans have covered their capitol city with leaflets which say: 'Give us money to reconvert our agriculture'. In China, one hundred drug pushers have been executed. These are just a few episodes that happened on the World Day Against Drugs.
000676 01/07/99
EUROPE / ALBANIA
PRODUCERS
PANORAMA
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The drugs that are grown in 34 Albanian districts out of 36 is exported through the Italian region of Puglia. A report by the United Nations, signed by an Italian prefect, makes revelations that are particulary embarassing for the Italian Government.
