ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #30, August 2 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 - Concerning the recent Supreme Court acquittal of an individual charged with the purchase of hashish in sufficient quantity for personal use by a participating and consenting group, CORA and Lista Bonino point out that in principle "this brings nothing new of any importance", and ask what ever happened to all the promises and good intentions by the Ministry of Social Solidarity concerning the decriminalisation of certain drug-related behaviour. The say that "the government should present a draught law on decriminalisation". In September the trial against several members of the Radical Party for free distribution of hashish in public will resume.
000722 22/07/99
E.U. / AUSTRIA
DRUG ADDICTION
DIE PRESSE
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In 1998 there were 162 drug-related deaths in Austria, ten fewer than year before. 73% were due to overdosing, 19% to AIDS, 8% to suicide.
000723 25/07/99
AMERICA / USA
DRUG ADDICTION
LA REPUBBLICA
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A private group in California has launched a massive pubblicity campaign urging women addicts to have themselves sterilised for USD 200. The group wants thus prevent the births of unwanted or 'parentless' children.
000724 23/07/99
E.U. / ITALY
DRUG ADDICTION
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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The murder of a shopkeeper by two presumed drug users in Milan has served as a pretext for Pino Arlacchi, the United Nations anti-drug chief, to reaffirm his opposition to all forms of legalisation, saying that these crimes 'proved' his case.
000717 29/07/99
E.U. / ITALY
DRUG CONSUMPTION
L'ESPRESSO
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Brief news from the Romagnan Riviera, home grounds of a pill called 'Obelix': it cost LIT 25,000 = approx. GBP 8 or USD 14 and contains amphetamine, morphine and LSD. It raises blood pressure, first numbing the legs to insensibility inducing collapse.
000718 22/07/99
E.U. / ITALY
DRUG CONSUMPTION
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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According to the annual report to the Parliament concerning drug addiction in 1998, young people turn to drugs in order better to face life's troubles. Compared to 1991, there were 14% fewer addicts under care in public institutions.
000721 23/07/99
E.U. / GB
HEALTH
THE TIMES
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A new succes has been chalked up by campaigners for legalised cannabis. A Court of Justice has acquitted banned-bearer Colin Davis, who pleaded his need for the substance to relieve the pain caused by injuries.
000725 28/07/99
E.U. / ITALY
LAWS
ALL ITALIAN NEWS MEDIA
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The convinction of an air force enlisted man was reversed when the Supreme Court ruled last week that it is not a crime for one person to acquire a quantity of hashish for himself and several other consenting persons provided it is for their personal use. The accused, who had been caught togheter with several other fellow-servicemen, was acquitted and freed.
000719 26/07/99
ASIA / THAILAND
NARCOMAFIAS
FRANKFURTER
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Thailand has accused the military government of Myanmar of being directly involved in the production and distribution of amphetamine and its derivatives.
000720 21/07/99
AMERICA
WAR ON DRUGS
LE FIGARO
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Mexican and Colombian drug cartels are in a new wave of expansion headed for the U.S. market. A widely-used growing ruse to get the merchandise past border controls is the use of child 'mules', since minors have little to fear from the America law.
000726 28/07/99
AMERICA / CUBA
WAR ON DRUGS
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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Fidel Castro has declared war on drugs traffickers. At the same time he accused Cuban exiles in Miami of spreading the notion that Cuba is a centre of international drug dealing and of attempting to obstruct a proposed anti-crime treaty between the United States and Cuba.
000727 28/07/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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The Colombian government has asked the Unites States for additional 500 milion dollars to combat against guerrillas involved in cocaine and heroin traffick. The U.S. has sent Gen. Barry McCaffrey, chief of the Drug Enforcement Agency, to Colombia to study the question.
