ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #38, September 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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000802 17/09/99
E.U. / NL / MAASTRICHT
ADDICTION
FRANKFURTER 17, 18, 20/09
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Excerpts from the second conference called 'Young people and drugs-keeping in contact': young people's behaviour is similar in the whole EU, although different solutions to the drug problems are adopted in different countries; there is generally a more scientific approach to the problem; proposals of legalisation were analysed; outcomes of courses for parents and teachers were presented.
000803 22/09/99
E.U. / GB
ADDICTION
THE TIMES
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Strathclyde, Britain's heroin capitol, counts its 107th heroin victim. The police say that the addicts could be about 12 thousand, good many of them by the HIV virus. A very good demonstration of how low the impact of government anti drug campaigns is.
000801 16/09/99
E.U. / GB
HEALTH
THE TIMES
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Former Home Office David Maclean accepted to undergo an anti drug tests during the annual meeting of the Police Superintendent's Association in Chester. The politician resulted positive to the test because he had just taken a pharmaceutical product, which contains codeine. 'I have never tried illegal drugs' he said.
000798 22/09/99
N.AMERICA / USA
INITIATIVES
LE MONDE
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During a referenda held in Washington in November '98, 69% of the citizens voted in favour of therapeutic use of marijuana. This result is similar to that of six other American States.
000796 18/09/99
E.U. / GERMANY / BREMEN
JUSTICE
FRANKFURTER
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Drug production, commerce, possession and consumption have slightly diminished in 1998. This is why the Land of Bremen is going to continue pursuing the traditional method of prevention, repression and therapy. With no opening to any anti prohibitionist policies whatsoever.
000797 18/09/99
E.U. / NL / AMSTERDAM
JUSTICE /
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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Official statistics say that in Amsterdam violence and use of drugs are both rising. In 1998 one third of the citizens (20% more than in 1995) have been in one way or another victims of violence, and there have been 10% more acts of crime against property. Notwithstanding this situation only a fourth of the crime are denounced.
000799 21/09/99
A.AMERICA / BRAZIL
NARCO MAFIA
EL PAIS
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A government report shows that Brazil is not just a passageway for drug traffic. There is an organisation, similar to those existing in Colombia, wich involves also a deputy, two former governors, two secretaries of State, three magistrates, managers, mayors, and a hundred or so policemen.
000800 20/09/99
N.AMERICA / USA
PERSONALITIES
LA STAMPA
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Presidential candidate Bill Bradley has publicly admitted to having smoked marijuana.
000804 17/09/99
N.AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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A special military anti drug force has been created with the help of the USA. Drug traffic is deeply tied to the guerrilla, therefore immediatly a delicate question arises: The role of the Americans in Colombia's internal politics.
000805 18/09/99
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WAR ON DRUGS
THE ECONOMIST 18/09 / IL GIORNALE 22/09
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A UN report says that world opium production has risen by 60% during the last year. This is a clear failure of Pino Arlacchi's plan, because the country that contributed mostly to this growth is Afghanistan, to whom great sums of money have given to reconvert its agriculture.
