ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #45, Novembre 15 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
- Concerning the proposal of shutting down discotheques to avoid the use of ecstasy, Marco Pannella, leader of the Radicals, asks how long it will be before we'll have stadium-type mass trials of tens of thousand, with Pino Arlacchi (anti-drug chief of NU) and Gianfranco Fini (president of the right-wing Alleanza nazionale) as judges?
- Pannella to entertained Renzo Arbore, who had called disk-jocheys and singer Vasco Rossi "vile" because they hadn't taken part in the campaign to criminalise discotheques: You're the vile ones, you and the lies, the violence and the ignorance of prohibitionism.
- CORA spokesperson Giulio Manfredi about synthetic drugs: we don't need crocodil tears, we need technicians in front of the discotheques to analyse the pills. The Netherlands teach us, the regions of Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna are ready, and the gouvernment poo-poohs the idea.
- Euro-M.P. Marco Cappato of the Lista Bonino about the proposal by Gianfranco Fini of Alleanza Nazionale of charging sellers of ecstasy with attemted homicide: "Why not also bars ands tobacconists?"
- CORA spokesperson Carmelo Palma has urged health minister Rosy Bindi to examine personally whilst on a prison-inspecting tour the inadequacy of methadone treatment for imprisoned addicts.
- Euro-M.P. Maurizio Turco of the Lista Bonino about the proposal by Undersecretary for Justice Giuseppe Ayala to close discotheques where ecstasy is sold: "Another symptom of the government's gasping efforts at prohibition and disinformation".
USA, MAINE. Sixty-one per cent of voters in a referendum approved the use of marijuana for medical uses. The new law becomes effective in sixty days.
000872 07/11/99
E.U. / GB
CULTURE
THE TIMES
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A group of students has received funds from the National Health Service, John More University of Liverpool and the E.U. for a stage on drug culture, included are conferences in Amsterdam and a visit to some of the nightclubs in the U.K. that check the purity of drugs at the door, under threat of confiscation.
000876 08/11/99
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DRUG ADDICT
FINANCIAL TIMES
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Drug addiction cost British firms 3 bln pounds a year, whilst in the USA six per cent of the full time workforce takes illegal drugs, and another six per cent is addicted to alcohol. Firm generally take only gingerly steps in order not to violate any rights of privacy, and seek to help.
000877 04/11/99
E.U. / ITALY
DRUG ADDICTION
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES / 04.11 TO 10.11
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Strong mobilisation of the forces of law and order is under way, as well as a campaign for public opinion, against ecstasy in discoteques. The Minister of the Interior goes through motions of mea culpa; Euro-M.P. Emma Bonino refuses to let herself be dragged into false solutions for phoney emergencies.
000873 06/11/99
E.U. / SPAIN
JUSTICE
EL PAIS
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A Madrid court has denied the police the right to arrest a presumed receiver of drugs without further proof. The police, the court held, had violated important juridical values and given drug dealers the opportunity of framing innocent people.
000874 05/11/99
E.U. / DENMARK
PREVENTION
FRANKFURTER
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The Danish government has refused to follow the Swiss example of controlled heroin distribution because the results, it is thought, depend too much on psycho-social committment. Denmark will instead intensify preventive measures and methadone treatment.
000875 03/11/99
E.U. / FRANCE
PREVENTION
LE FIGARO
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Whoever is concerned with the care of drug addicts should also be concerned about their children, often maltreated and above all abandoned, according to the Observatoire de l'Action Sociale Decentralise.
000878 10/11/99
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WAR ON DRU GS
LE MONDE 07.11 / IL GIORNALE 08.11 / CORRIERE DELLA SERA 09.11
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According to anti-drug chieg General Barry McCaffrey, American drug users have dropped from twenty-five million in 1979 to fourteen million today, 'thanks to the all-out war'. He warms that tidal waves of cocaine are about to hit Europe.
000879 10/11/99
N.AMERICA USA
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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The Columbian peace process needs money to prevent another narco-state from forming south of the country. Funds have been asked by many authorities, including anti-drug chief Barry McCaffrey, but Congress seems to have turned a deaf ear.
