ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #47, Novembre 29 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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RUSSIA
The Governor of Sverdlovk, Mr. Rossel, is organising regional referenda to introduce the death penalty for drug pushers in all of Russia. Nikolaj Khramov, co-ordinator of the Radical Party says that such an initiative is not only cruel and illogical, but also legislatively impracticable. It would bring Russia out of the European Council, because to be in it is indispensable to be for the abolition of the death penalty within this year.
ITALY
Franco Corleone, under-secretary of the Ministry of Justice, has proposed that Italian Regions start the experimentation of controlled distribution of heroin, although only after the next elections. Marco Cappato, European deputy of the Lista Bonino says it is about time that such a thing happens, let's only hope Mr. Corleone is not hoping in an annulment of the coming elections...
We must resolve the drugs/crime/health emergency by legalising drugs. As indicated by the Magistrate Mr. Nobili.
000904 18/11/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
ADDICTION
EL PAIS
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A new and devastating phenomenon is taking place in Colombia: Drug traffickers are slowly managing to turn the Colombian youth, rich and poor alike, into heroin addicts in order to use them as pushers.
000905 23/11/99
E.U.
ADDICTION
VARIOUS
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3 to 5 million European Union citizens may have tried heroin; 40 million have certainly tried cannabis; between 1 and 3% have used cocaine; and the regular addicts are 1/1,5% on a total of 375 million. Italy, togheter with Luxembourg, beats all records: 8 people out of 1000 are addicts. These are figures from the 1999 EU report on drugs.
000906 22/11/99
E.U. / ITALY
ADDICTION
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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Out of three million families that live in poverty, at least 700.000 suffer also because of alcoholism and heavy drug addiction.
000907 20/11/99
E.U. / ITALY
ADDICTION
IL GIORNALE
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Among the militaries in 1998 there has been a lesser use of heroin and a growing use of cocaine, alcohol, ecstasy, compared to 1997. In the Italian military barracks the use of drugs resembles that of the rest of society.
000896 18/11/99
E.U. / GB
CONSUMERS
THE TIMES
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A group of ex military parachutists are in jail for having sold cannabis and amphetamines while still in service.
000899 21/11/99
E.U.
INITIATIVE
CORRIERE DELLA SERA / IL GIORNALE / LA REPUBBLICA
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The under-secretary of Justice, Franco Corleone, says that it is time to take a courageous stance. After the next elections some Italian Regions could try experimenting controlled distribution of heroin in their jails. Harm reduction policies are needed, he says, just like in the rest of Europe.
000900 23/11/99
E.U. / SPAIN / MADRID
INITIATIVE
EL PAIS
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Madrid is the first city to have created centres for controlled distribution of heroin. The first 'narcoward' will be inaugurated during the first semester of year 2000 in Las Barranquillas.
000898 19/11/99
E.U.
INTIATIVE
LA STAMPA
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'The great ecstasy emergency that just been unleashed in Italy is undermining the essential debate on Prohibitionism' (from a press conference of the Lista Bonino at the European Parliament).
000897 23/11/99
E.U. / GB
JUSTICE
THE TIMES
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A study by the Parliament says that big drug traffickers are able to continue their criminal activities even while in jail. This is why the use of anti-drugs dogs and isolation has been proposed even for people who are only being investigated.
000901 20/11/99
AMERICA / ARGENTINA B.AIREs
NARCOMAFIA
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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Both wife and son of Pablo Escobar, the boss killed by the Police in 1993, have been arrested for alleged money laundering and criminal association.
000902 18/11/99
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NARCOMAFIA
L'EXPRESS 23/11 / LE FIGARO 18/11
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An investigation has been opened after 804 Kilos of cocaine were found and confiscated in France. The Colombian chemist of the criminal gang says that a high-ranking personality of the Ssudi Arabian regime is also involved.
000903 18/11/99
E.U. / ITALY
PREVENTION
IL GIORNALE, IL MESSAGGERO / LA REPUBBLICA 18/11 / LA STAMPA 19/11
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The singer Roberto Vecchioni is touring Italian schools and preaching that ecstasy captures only those who have 'lost their values'. Singer Jovannotti instead goes on television sayng it is the most deceitful drug of all. So much for prevention!
000908 18/11/99
E.U.
WAR ON DRUGS
IL SOLE 24 ORE 18/11 / DIE PRESSE 19/11
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A petition of the European right-wing parties to the European Commission wants Holland to be suspended from the Schengen agreement and that its frontiers be closed again, at least until it continues to be a centre of drug export.
000909 20/11/99
E.U.
WAR ON DRUGS
IL SOLE 24 ORE
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A European summit will be held to co-ordinate policies against drug traffic. It should begin during the first half of next year. This is the European Parliament's answer to the drug emergency alarm, as sounded by the Commission headed by Romano Prodi.
000910 18/11/99
E.U. / GB
WAR ON DRUGS
IL GIORNALE
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The Blair Government intends to fight drugs intensifying police controls, disregarding the right to privacy, and by restricting freedom on parole.
000911 18/11/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z. 18/11 / HERALD TRIBUNE 22/11
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From the 1998 anti-drug police report: More and more poisons are used to destroy coca plantations, nonetheless they keep augmenting. Five years ago they were in 10 provinces out of 33, today in 21. There are no longer any giant cartels, but only small ones that are impossible to stop. In Peru and Bolivia the eradication have made the fields move to where the guerrilla is in control.
000912 23/11/99
E.U. / GB
WAR ON DRUGS
THE TIMES
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90% of all heroin comes from the Afghanistan. The British Government recognises Iran's commitment against the drug passage that crosses its territory (3000 dead among the Iranian military forces since 1983), and because of this is sending hundred of bulletproof vests for their frontier policemen.
