ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #34, August 30 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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000755 22/08/99
E.U. / SPAIN
CONSUMERS
EL PAIS
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Kalamundia is an association that studies the world related to cannabis consumption. It was founded in Bilbao two years ago, fights for the legalisation of cannabis, and has published a series of tests through which it is possible to verify the quality of various types of drugs.
000756 24/08/99
E.U. / GB
CONSUMPTION
THE TIMES
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The National Farmers' Union Mutual has sounded an alarm: life is getting always more dangerous in the rural areas of England. Crime is rising, says the Home Office, and with it the use of drugs like cannabis, heroin and ecstasy.
000760 20/08/99
E.U. / ITALY
DRUG TRAFFIC
LA STAMPA
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After having confiscated a series of large quantities of drugs the Police headquarters of Turin are convinced of the fact that the Albanese Mafia is in control of all drug traffic in the whole region od Piedmont.
000759 24/08/99
AMERICA / USA
HEALTH
LA REPUBBLICA, LE MONDE / LA STAMPA, CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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A research has announced his discovery of a vaccine that is capable of neutralising the effects of cocaine. During a meeting of the American Chemical Society the scientist also said that as of next winter the vaccine it will experimented on human beings.
000757 20/08/99
AMERICA / USA
THE LAW
HERALD TRIBUNE
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Two high school students from Oklahoma have refused to undergo the anti-drug tests that their school enforces to allow admission to certain special courses. The American Civil Liberties Union has decided to support their protest.
000758 20/08/99
AMERICA / USA
THE LAW
HERALD TRIBUNE
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By enacting more severe rules the Clinton administration is taking new steps against the phenomenon of money laundering, which is related especially to International drug traffic.
000761 24/08/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
LE MONDE
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The rising of violence and the persistence of drug traffic and production, phenomena against which the Colombian Government has done little, have caused the Venezuelan President to open a dialogue with the Colombian guerrilla, especially to enforce security at the border between the two countries.
000762 20/08/99
AMERICA / CUBA
WAR ON DRUGS
EL PAIS
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The Miami Herald says that to fight drug traffic the Cuban Government is willing to accept the presence of special USA anti-drug agents on its territory.
000763 20/08/99
AMERICA / USA
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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The Republican member Elisabeth Dole has criticised the Clinton administration for having reduced the budget for drug interdiction. The failure of the war on drugs is blatantly evident in Colombia, where more money is being invested in drugs and cultivation is rising again.
000764 24/08/99
AMERICA / PERU
WAR ON DRUGS
EL PAIS
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The American forces involved in the fight against the Narcos admit that their control over the situation is diminishing, and that Peruvian farmers are reconverting their plantations to growing coca again. The new prices of cocaine (70% more than in the past four years) have newly made this trade veri profitable.
