ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #42, October 25 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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000843 15/10/99
E.U. / FRANCE
ADDICTION
LIBERATION 15/10 / LE MONDE 17/10
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Studies undertaken by psychologist anthropolist R.Ingold on the effects of ecstasy show massive distribution, in particulary among those who were already users of marijuana and cocaine, a tendency to underestimate its effects, and a connexion between the so-called 'periferie-rap-cannabis' and 'centre discotheque ecstasy' markets.
000844 18/10/99
E.U. / ITALY
ADDICTION
CORRIERE DELLA SERA / IL MESSAGGERO / LA STAMPA
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The president of the National Alliance, Gianfranco Fini, has proposed a new drugs law which would require the public health and other administrative services to hospitalise addicts by force. The presence laws, he says, are permissive and lax.
000838 14/10/99
E.U. / SPAIN
PREVENTION
EL PAIS
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The ministers of the Interior, Education and Public Health have co-ordinated a programme of prevention among school children of about age eleven. Outcome: 33 p.c. of the kids began drinking alcohol later than the norm; ditto tobacco (16.5 p.c.).
000839 18/10/99
S.AMERIA / BRAZIL
PREVENTION
EL PAIS
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Research on legal and illegal drugs: tobacco smokers have a higher percentage of users willing to stop compared to users of marijuana, cocaine and heroin. Psycologist Dalcy thinks this owes to the greater effectiveness of anti-tobacco campaigns, as compared to those against other drugs.
000840 17/10/99
E.U. / GB
PREVENTION
THE TIMES
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The Scottish Episcopal Church has decided to launch an anti-drug campaign after forty years of silence on the subject. This is the reply to the liberal approach suggested by the cardinal Richard Halloway.
000841 17/10/99
E.U. / GB
PREVENTION
THE TIMES
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The first successes of the new Scottish anti-drug agency has been the discovery ot two criminal organisations.
000837 17/10/99
E.U. / ITALY
PROPOSAL
IL GIORNALE, LA REPUBBLICA / LA STAMPA
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Director of prison Giancarlo Caselli has reopened the matter of controlled heroin distribution in prison sayng: 'Let's talk about it without taboos or idealogical prejudices - a scientific approach is needed'.
000842 21/10/99
N.AMERICA / USA
PUBLIC HEALTH
L'ESPRESSO
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With the approval of the Federal Food and Drugs Administration, cannabis will be used in a controlled experiment to determine its effectiveness against severe chronic headaches.
000845 19/10/99
E.U. / NL
WAR ON DRUGS
FRANKFURTER / SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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Classical music was played over the loudspeakers of the Heerlen station on the theory that Bach and Beethoven would prove unbearable to drug addicts' ears. The theory has raised serious doubts in Amsterdam.
000846 17/10/99
E.U.
WAR ON DRUGS
IL SOLE 24 ORE
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The Ministers' Council of the European Union has outlawed the new synthetic drug known as 4-MTA ('super-ecstasy'), developed in Holland and swiftly distributed throughout Europe. Checks and criminal prosecutions are prescribed.
000847 16/10/99
E.U.
WAR ON DRUGS
THE ECONOMIST
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The massive influx of illegal immigrants has increased dru-related crimes. This was one of the main themes in the discussion on European collective security held in Finland.
000848 14/10/99
S.AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE / FINANCIAL TIMES 14/10 / THE TIMES 15/10
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In one of the most massive anti-drug operations ever undertaken the authorities have arrested thirty people, among whom Fabio Ochon, boss of the Medelin cartel.
000849 15/10/99
S.AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
THE TIMES
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Thank to drugs, the Colombian guerillas are founding a small Marxist state within Colombia -according to a report by Gabriella Giannini.
