ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #39, October 4 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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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT - The prohibitionist holy war against drugs constituted the central argument of debate at the last meeting of the Freedom and Civil Rights Commission. Deputy Marco Cappato, of the Lista Bonino, ironically said: "This is a public announcement. We are looking for conscience objectors who are willing to disobey the orders of 'General' Arlacchi and his fanatical 'zero tolerance' corporals.
000810 27/09/99
E.U. / SPAIN
ADDICTION
EL PAIS
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The Plan nacional sobre Drogas, which is a body of the Ministry of Interiors, has found that use of cannabis and ecstasy in diminishing among young people. It is the first time the trend has changed since the eighties. Consumption of alcohol and tobacco, on the other hand, is growing.
000809 28/09/99
E.U. / ITALY
HEALTH
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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Pharmacologist Gian Luigi Gessa says that marijuana, if used between the ages of 12 and 15, can prevent the brain's development.
000806 29/09/99
E.U. / FRANCE / LYON
JURISPRUDENCE
LE MONDE
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Two members of the CIRC (an association that gathers information regarding cannabis) have been fined 10000 and 5000 Francs for instigation towards drug use. In 1997 they had written a number of articles, which were then sequestered, favourable to the use of cannabis.
000807 24/09/99
E.U. / ITALY
JUSTICE
IL MESSAGGERO
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Among the most common types of crime, the third place, or 17.8% of the total, is held by those crimes that break the law against drugs. The first place is held crimes against property (26.57%), which is then followed by personal offences (18.20%). Crimes and offences against public order are only in fourth place (13.41%).
000808 27/09/99
E.U. / GB
THE LAW
THE TIMES 27/09 / LA REPUBBLICA 29/09
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Tony Blair announced the Government's new anti drug during the last congress of the Labour Party. It consists in a turning of the screw against everyone: from the drug producer, to the trafficker, to the pusher, down to the last consumer.
000811 28/09/99
EUROPE / RUSSIA
TRAFFIC
LIBERATION
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In Moscow alone drug commerce has quadrupled in four years. The city officially counts 27000 drug addicts, 1520 of which are adolescents.
000812 29/09/99
EUROPE
WAR ON DRUGS
FRANKFURTER
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The European Drug Observatory and the Pompidou Group have just signed a 'Memorandum of Understanding' wich aimes to the exchanging of information and intiatives against the diffusion of drugs. A particular attention will be given to situations of Central and Eastern Europe.
000813 25/09/99
S.AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
THE ECONOMIST
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President Pastrana has asked for more help from the USA to fight drug traffic. This will inevitably have effects on the fight against the guerrilla, who is in control of many coca plantations with which it finances itself. Pastrana does not see any chance for a near solution for either one of these problems.
000814 24/09/99
S.AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
FINANCIAL TIMES
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In Colombia the situation is paradoxical: the more money is invested in fighting drugs, the less effective does this fight become. The only way to reduce the harm brought by drug trafficking is to decriminalise and legalise. Otherwise, to leave everything as it is, would only mean an escalation of wasted money and violence.
