ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #43, October 31 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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ITALY - Excerpt of declarations made by European deputies Maurizio Turco and Marco Cappato of the Lista Bonino at the Rainbow prohibitionist meeting in San Patrignano.
Pino Arlacchi, the UN delegate for the war on drugs, says that 8% of the world's trading are in drugs. What he doesn't say is how much money is invested and made in fighting drugs.
Sergio Mattarella, the Italian vice Premier, is against controlled distribution of drugs; let's just hope he's not confusing his own moral values with the public office he holds.
ITALY - Giulio Manfredi, of the CORA, after having heard about the three deaths in jail for overdose, writes to the Director of the Italian prisons, Giancarlo Caselli saying that in jail it is possible to find all kinds of illegal drugs, but not methadone.
Carmelo Palma, representative of the CORA in the National Council on Drug Addiction, will ask for the intervention of the Ministry of Public Solidarity.
000857 26/10/99
E.U. / FRANCE
DRUG ADDICTION
EL PAIS, LE MONDE / LIBERATION
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The social cost of legal and illegal drugs in France has been calculated for the first time. On a total of 218 billion Franks spent (1.42% of the entire home product), alcohol accounts for 53%, tobacco fo 40% and illegal drugs only for 6.12%.
000856 23/10/99
E.U. / GB
HEALTH
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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A British research shows how the use of ecstasy during pregnancy can compromise the foetuses health. These babies are 5 times more subject to heart problems than the average, and 38 times more subject to limb malformations.
000851 22/10/99
E.U. / ITALY
INITIATIVE
ALL ITALIAN NEWSPEAPERS
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During the yearly 'Rainbow' meeting held in the rehabilitation centre of San Patrignano, personality from the world of politics, art and culture expressed their firm positions against legalisation of drugs, and the necessity to trengthen prohibitionist policies.
000850 21/10/99
E.U. / ITALY / TRENT
JUSTICE
LA REPUBBLICA
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A couple of parents segregated ther 17 year-old daughter to prevent her from taking drugs. The court acquitted them from the accusation of kidnapping, reasoning that it was only an exaggerated disciplinary measure.
000852 25/10/99
EUROPE
MARKET
DER SPIEGEL
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A new type of drug has arrived from South East Asia, 'Yaba'. It is a low cost amphetamine. They also call it 'Hitler's drug' because it was created by the Germans during the war to keep soldiers awake. Among its effects there hallucinations and persecution mania.
000853 28/10/99
E.U. / ITALY
MARKET
L'ESPRESSO
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As in Britain: a laboratory analysis commissioned by a weekly magazine shows that on 82 out of 100 banknotes traces of cocaine can be found. Which shows its degree of circulation.
000854 21/10/99
AMERICA / MEXICO
NARCOMAFIA
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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Stanley Pimentel, a FBI agent, says that people in high ranks of the Pri, the majority party in Mexico, have been trafficking in drugs to finance their electoral campaigns. The former president, Carlos Salinas, is also suspected.
000855 26/10/99
E.U. / GB
PREVENTION
THE TIMES
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Keith Hellawell, in charge of anti-drug strategies for the English Government, says that use of heroin and cocaine has not diminished in the past two years, since when the Blair Government inaugurated its war on drugs.
000858 27/10/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
EL PAIS
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The Colombian President Andres Pastrana has asked the European Parliament to support the peace process in his country. If the EU opened its markets to legal Colombian products, it would help create an alternative to the cultivation of coca and to drug trafficking.
