ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #36, September 13 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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000774 07/09/99
N.AMERICA / USA
BEHAVIOUR
LE FIGARO
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A research by the American Associate for Civil Liberties and by George Soros' Open Society says that it is useless for companies to have their employees undergo anti drug tests. The use of drugs is usually so small and has so little influence on production processes that the tests are not worth the money they cost.
000783 02/09/99
E.U. / ITALY
HEALTH
IL GIORNALE
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An Italian researcher, Maria Pilla, together with a British team, has discovered an anti cocaine pharmaceutical product. Her work has been published by 'Nature'. The substance is based on a molecule that works on the brain by eliminating the sensation of desire and craving.
000784 03/09/99
E.U. / FRANCE
HEALTH
LE FIGARO
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A 21-year-old boy has died from overdose of ecstasy. An investigation had been opened seeing that this seems to be the first official case regarding the synthetic drug.
000785 07/09/99
E.U. / FRANCE
HEALTH
LE FIGARO
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A research by the Mission Interministerial de lutte contre la drogue e les toxicomanies says that alcohol can lead to the use of other drugs. This phenomenon has been observed especcially among young people.
000776 06/09/99
E.U. / SPAIN / MADRID
INITIATIVES
EL PAIS
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Inhabitants of Las Barranquillas, a Madrid district, and the political opposition are so much against the project of installing a centre for controlled and hygienic drug use in the area that the local Government had to suspend its being put into act.
000775 08/09/99
E.U. / GB
JUSTICE
THE TIMES
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Tory leader Wiliam Hague has proposed that drug pushers that are caught twice selling drugs to minors should be condemned to life imprisonment.
000780 02/09/99
S.AMERICA / BRAZIL
NARCOMAFIA
FRANKFURTER
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A delegation of natives from the North Eastern area of Brazil went to the senate to ask for more effective action against the drug traffickers that operate on their territory and cause all kind of trouble, including killings.
000781 07/09/99
E.U. / AUSTRIA / VIENNA
NARCOMAFIA
DIE PRESSE
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Vienna has become a meeting point for International drug traffickers. The Austrian Minister of Interiors intends to strengthen repression and collaboration with police from other countries.
000782 04/09/99
E.U. / ITALY
PREVENTION
IL MESSAGGERO
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Tne national fund for fighting drugs, consisting in 363 bilion Lire through 1997-99, has become operative. The final act was approved by the Cabinet, and includes all aspects regarding prevention, cures and social rehabilitation, which are all necessary to access the funding. The regions handle 75% of the whole budget.
000786 05/09/99
E.U. / ITALY / MILANO
PUSHERS
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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The residents of a Milan neighbourhood, after being exasperated by the drug dealing that had been going on there, organised themselves in 'anti drug patrol' managing to frighten the pushers away, not without acts of violence.
000777 04/09/99
E.U. / ITALY
THE LAW
CORRIERE DELLA SERA / LA STAMPA
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Luciano Violante, speaker of the Italian Parliament, says that times are not mature yet for legalising drugs. Nonetheless he thinks the Parliament should gather as much information it can on the Dutch and Swiss experiments of controlled distribution of heroin.
000778 02/09/99
E.U. / ITALY
THE LAW
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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Emma Bonino, during a debate on state controlled drug distribution said: 'I am in favour of controlled distribution of all drugs, because otherwise there is no solution to the problem, only useless patches'.
000779 09/09/99
E.U. / ITALY
THE LAW
PANORAMA
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Legalisation is a necessary step to fight the drug problem, especially after the failure of all other methods tried in the past years. We must defend drug addicts from themselves, without violence. This is the opinion of the Director of Panorama.
000787 08/09/99
S.AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
EL PAIS
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Cesar Gravina, General Secretary of the South American States Organisation (OEA), thinks that an USA military aid is necessary to stop the expansion of Colombian drug traffic.
