ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #44, Novembre 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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000864 01/11/99
E.U. / I
HEALTH
ALL ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS
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An alarm has been sounded after the death of a boy and the hospitalisation of others that had taken ecstasy cut with led. The news gives us the occasion to study the phenomenon of young people and discos, and the same time lets loose all kinds of talk, drastically pro or against any form of prevention or legalisation.
000859 01/11/99
AMERICA / USA
JUSTICE
NEWSWEEK
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Mat Southwell, co-ordinator of the National Drugs Users Network and co-founder of the Dance Drugs Alliance hopes that drug consumers will soon see their rights recognised. Many sports are more dangerous than most drugs. A parachute diver has 700 times more chances of dying than someone who takes an ecstasy pill.
000860 01/11/99
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LEGALISATION
NEWSWEEK
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Pino Arlacchi is backing the UN's negative stance towards legalisation of drugs. Drug related crimes would not diminish, he says, and consumption would grow, as in China with legalised Opium. Heroin consumption in slowing down in Europe, the same is happening in the USA with cocaine. This means that the work done up to now has been successful. A message for the next generations.
000861 03/11/99
AMERICA / BRAZIL
NARCOMAFIA
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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The Brazilian Parliamentary Commission on Drug traffic is investigating on a corruption case that involves 16 federal states and 150 personalities including deputies, magistrates, and businessmen. The magazine 'O Globo' started the enquiry.
000862 03/11/99
E.U.
PREVENTION
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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'Fesu' is the European Forum for Urban Safety. It was created in 1987 and is based in Paris. 250 cities partecipate in it, at the motto of 'Safer cities, less prison', exchanging points of view, and convinced that danger derives mostly from minor crimes, especially drug related ones.
000863 28/10/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
PRODUCERS
NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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In Colombia coca cultivation have more that doubled in the past four years, notwithstanding the fact that in no other south America country has done as much to stop them. This news item is from the organisation 'Accion Andina'.
000865 30/10/99
AMERICA / CANADA
TRAFFICKERS
THE ECONOMIST
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As during the time of Prohibitionism on alcohol, a large quantity of marijuana from the Caribbean enters the USA via British Columbia. The high degree of consumption of grass and its depenalisation (as in many other Canadian regions) favour this territory as a passage point.
000866 04/11/99
EUROPE / ALBANIA
TRAFFICKERS
PANORAMA
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Albania is now one of the world's centres for illegal traffic. Since the sixties the Kosovar Mafia has been dominating the Balkans, trafficking in goods going from cigarettes to machine guns to drugs.
000867 29/10/99
OCEANIA / AUSTRALIA / SYDNEY
WAR ON DRUGS
EL PAIS
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The Vatican has intervened to stop the 'Charity nuns' from participating in a pilot Government project. They were supposed to direct a centre for controlled distribution of heroin, in one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods of the city.
000868 29/10/99
EUROPE
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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Barry McCaffrey, Director of the US Office of National Drug Control Policy, says that consumption of cocaine from South America is diminishing in the USA, but growing in Europe. Last year 130 tons of cocaine entered Europe from Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. He also says that Europe should not underestimate the problem, as they did in the eighties.
000869 01/11/99
E.U.
WAR ON DRUGS
NEWSWEEK /
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The policies of European Governments are changing. From an ideological position of total closure, most countries are turning to a more open concept of 'harm reduction'. Now it is more so a battle between who is pro and who is against legalisation, rather that a real war on drugs.
000870 31/10/99
AMERICA / USA / MINNESOTA
WAR ON DRUGS
THE TIMES
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14.843 deaths for drugs and drug-related crimes in 1996. The Policy Reform Group says that today, after that America has spent 18 million USD of the annual budget and 50 million USD for private police, civil rights are ever more in danger and there is more racism, prisoners, corrupted police, bureaucracy, danger in the streets, AIDS, persecution of those who use marijuana and opium deviates for medical purposes, ..
000871 29/10/09
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
LA STAMPA
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A journalistic reportage from Colombia says that the agreements between the Government and the guerrilla set aside an area bigger that Switzerland in which the State will de facto have no powers whatsoever.
