ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #33, August 23 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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000749 12/08/99
E.U. / AUSTRIA
DRUG ADDICTION
DIE PRESSE
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'Angel trumpet', a plant whose leaves are used for making tea-like beverages by many adolescents as a cheap and home-made alternative to expensive drugs, is a potentially lethal poison.
000748 15/08/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
DRUG DEALERS
LA STAMPA 15.08 / FRANKFURTER 17.08 / LE MONDE 18.08
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The wife of the American colonel stationed in Colombia in order to help fight the drug cartels who used her diplomatic immunity to shift cocaine to New York is not alone. Eight American embassy employees are under investigation on the same charges.
000750 13/08/99
EUROPE
DRUG DEALERS
IL MESSAGGERO
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Two months after the end of bombing in the Balkans the power vacuum is increasingly being filled by organised crime. Local mafias control drugs, sex slavery, the arms trade and money laundering.
000743 15/08/99
E.U. / SPAIN
DRUG USERS
EL PAIS
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Not a few Spaniards on holiday in other countries risk serious trouble because they don't know the local laws on hashish, the possession of which is legal in Spain. In India it could cost them ten years reclusion, in Kenya a long stay in the dreaded prisons.
000744 16/08/99
E.U. / GB
DRUG USERS
THE TIMES
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The National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) reports that one third of crimes against property are drug-related. In England and Wales there are 130,000 addicts who cost the state 850 milion pounds a year.
000745 13/08/99
AMERICA
JUSTICE
LE MONDE
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Caribbean islands, especially Santo Domingo, Jamaica and Cuba, are in the grip of terrifying violence arising out of the drug traffic destined for Europe and the U.S. Although there is no death penalty in these states the police often go on killing sprees.
000747 17/08/99
EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
LAW
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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Funds confiscated in anti-drug actions and held in special accounts will be used for the prevention of addiction and the rehabilitation of addict in a programme that has already been approved by the Nationalrat, the governing legislative body.
000746 15/08/99
E.U. / GB
NEW IDEAS
THE TIMES 15.08 / CORRIERE DELLA SERA 18.08
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Bishop Richard Holloway of Edinburgh recently smoked a joint in order better to understand the marijuana question. Conservatives were outraged, liberals overjoyed. Holloway says that 'it is a wise policy to teach our youth to resort to certain substances in moderation'.
000751 17/08/99
AMERICA / USA
WAR ON DRUGS
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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Fidel Castro has offered the USA a personal alliance in the fight against drugs. According to Senators Daschle and Dorgan this initiative is worthy of serious consideration but many Americans think that any form of collaboration with Castro, even on a personal level, is an implicit recognition of his Communist government.
000752 17/08/99
AMERICA / MEXICO
WAR ON DRUGS
EL PAIS, HERALD TRIBUNE / LE MONDE, SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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The chief of the anti-drug forces narrowly escaped an attempt on his life. Suspicion has fallen on the cartels, but their involvement seems unlikely since they would almost certainly not have failed.
000753 12/08/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
THE TIMES
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The American Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering had a meeting with President Pastrana. They discussed cooperation in the war on drugs and an early end to the now thirty-five-year-old civil war.
000754 13/08/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
IL MESSAGGERO / LA STAMPA
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The American Secretary of State Madeline Albright maintains in an article published in the New York Times that Colombia's difficulties have become so serious that they threaten the stability of the entire region, and that there is no longer any difference between traffickers and rebel guerrillos.
