An international Symposium on drugs will be held from the 16th to the 19th January 1991. The goal of the Symposium is to clarify the situation of the complicated problem of the drug traffic and of the laws, and to discuss both the current official aids and the legislative policies on drugs, and the alternative ways to think and act.
Here below you will find the Symposium's programme and in the texts that follow the speeches of the participants, which will be translated in Italian, Spanish, English and French.
"PROHIBITION AND ANTIPROHIBITIONISM ON DRUGS"
Brussels, 16-19 January 1991
PROGRAMME:
Wednesday 16 (9.30 am)
Introduction
Francis CABALLERO, University of Paris X.
I. ECONOMIC ASPECTS
1. The situation of the drug market: prices and legal structures:
Roger LEWIS, Edinburgh;
Catherine BATAILLE, Brussels;
2. Economic aspects of the drug market:
Richard STEVENSON, University of Liverpool;
Amato LAMBERTI, University of Naples;
Jean ZIEGLER, member of the Swiss Parliament;
3. General report:
Richard STEVENSON.
Thursday 17 (9.00 am)
II. LEGAL ASPECTS
Reports on specific realities:
1. The Dutch model:
Henk VAN VLIET, Amsterdam;
2. The Spanish model:
Manuela Carmena CATRILLO, Madrid;
3. The Merseyside model;
Pat O'HARE, Liverpool;
4. Example of a homogeneous prohibitionist situation;
Debate:
Stanley COHEN; Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The point of view of the International Organizations:
5. UNO:
Eduardo VETTERE, UNO;
6. EEC:
Marco Taradash, member of the European Parliament;
7. Interpol:
Robert KENDALL, Interpol;
Debate:
Ethan NADELMANN, University of Princeton.
General Report:
Jules MESSINE, Free University of Brussels (ULB).
Friday 18 (9.00 am)
III. SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS
1. Socio-geographical aspects on the populations involved in the production of drugs.
- Cocaine:
Anthony HENMAN, University of Campinas, Sao Paolo;
- Heroin:
Yves LEDOUX, Isidore PELC, Free University of Brussels (ULB):
2. Medical-psychological and ethical aspects relative to the use:
- Epidemiological aspects;
- Psycho-analitical aspects:
Gerard MILLER, Paris;
- Ethical aspects:
Leon SCHWARTZENBERG, Paris;
- AIDS and drugs:
(General report of the Brussels Symposium, May 1990);
- General Report:
Willy SZAFRAN, Free University of Brussels (ULB).
IV. PROFIT ON THE USE OF DRUGS
1. The criminological point of view:
Dimitri KALOGEROPOULOS, Free University of Brussels (ULB);
2. The Vandervelde Act on alcohol:
Robert FLAGOTHIER, Brussels;
3. The prohibitionist point of view:
(U.S. Administration);
4. The anti-prohibitionist point of view:
Marie-Andrée BERTRAND, University of Montreal.
Saturday 19
ROUND TABLE
- The Presidents of the major political parties of Belgium;
- Carole TONGUE, member of the European Parliament;
- Sir Jack STEWART CLARK, member of the European Parliament;
- Marco PANNELLA, member of the European Parliament.
V. CONCLUSIVE REPORT
Dimitri KALOGEROPOULOS
