ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #40, October 11 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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000815 02/10/99
OCEANIA / AUSTRALIA
CONSUMERS
IL MESSAGGERO
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Australians show an ever-diminishing interest towards alcohol, and tend to favour marijuana instead. To buy this drug they spend an average of 230 Usd a year per adult, which is equivalent to about 1% of the Australian home product.
000816 06/10/99
E.U. / GB
CONSUMERS
THE TIMES
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A debate is open on whether anti-drug tests, which often are imposed on applicants for jobs, could represent a limitation of personal freedom. At the same time everyone is aware of the fact that drug are ever more diffused. During a very popular television program, for example, it has been said that 20% of young professional from the higher social classes habitually uses cocaine.
000818 01/10/99
E.U. / GERMANY
INITIATIVE
FRANKFURTER
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A year after there having taken office the left-wing Government have started the project of controlled distribution of heroin. The official bulletin specifies what conditions are necessary to carry on this experimentation, which will touch seven cities with 700 selected drug addicts.
000817 30/09/99
E.U. / ITALY / ROME
JUSTICE
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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A number of prisoners were allowed to leave jail after having presented false medical documents that certified their state of drug addiction. A racket of fake certifications and of drug smuggling in and out of public jails has been discovered which involves 43 people who work inside the Court of Rome. Three judges and a number of registrars, lawyers and doctors are under investigation.
000819 07/10/99
E.U. / ITALY
MAFIA
L'ESPRESSO
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The Dia has a report on the principal types of foreign Mafia present on the Italian territory. From the benning of 1992 to May 1999 there have been 3561 drug related crimes committed by Albanese citizens; 370 crimes committed by Nigerians from 1992 to January '99; 23 committed by Chinese up to September 1998 and 73 by former Soviet Union citizens up to May '99.
000820 04/10/99
E.U. / GB / LONDON
MARKET
FINANCIAL TIMES, IL MESSAGGERO / 04/10 / EL PAIS, SUEDDEUTSCHE Z. 05/10
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A research conducted by the BBC shows that 99% of all banknotes circulating in the area of London bear traces of cocaine. Some of the bills may have been used to inhale the drug, but most have simply passed through the hands of pushers and consumers.
000821 04/10/99
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NARCOMAFIA
EL PAIS
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The postal service is the new way that drug traffickers have devised to import drugs into Europe. A packet containing books or records gets sent to Colombia, and a few days later it's sent back apparently intact because the addresse is unknown. In reality it travels back to the sender full of drugs.
000822 29/09/99
S.AMERICA / BRAZIL
NARCOMAFIA
LIBERATION
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Deputy Hildebrando Pascoal has been arrested for alleged participation in drug trafficking. It is the first time that a cartel similar to those existing in Colombia is discovered in Brazil, a country up to now known only as a passage point for drugs.
000823 05/10/99
N.AMERICA / USA
WAR ON DRUGS
EL PAIS
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In the USA teachers and school personnel can be screened by anti-drug test. The Supreme Court has in fact admitted the reasons of the Fort Knox educational committee, which imposes such tests on people applying for jobs.
