An international antiprohibition appeal

[hr-sanders]

Been there done that…
The UN meeting this petition was intended for has already been held, but I guess they canged it to the next one.

/ Hr Sanders.

[trestor]

I don’t know for sure but i think I read in the radical newsletter that they still collect names, for the next UN conference.

[reaper]

Here, my friends a newsletter! You can see, that the campaign is going on.

Quote:

Von : Bulletin Antiprohibitionist
Gesendet : Donnerstag, 4. März 2004 21:54:18
An :
Betreff : Liafax [EN] N. 10

Sign the appeal to reform the UN Conventions on Drugs

Bulletin of the International Antiprohibitionist League on the world campaign for the reform of the UN Conventions on Drugs

#.10 – YEAR II – 03 March 2004

Published in NEWS FROM THE IAL :

Italy
In a letter to the organisers of the Rome protest held on Saturday 21.02.04, in which tens of thousands of citizens marched against the government’s proposed hyper-repressive new drug law, Radicali Italiani secretary Daniele Capezzone and IAL secretary Marco Perduca remind the leaders that the antiprohibitionist battle has always been at the centre of Radicali aims and programmes. The goal is not merely depenalisation and damage reduction, but a tenacious fight for freedom, civil rights and civilised attitudes. The government’s repressive counter-reformation mustn’t be met with mere demands for the maintenance of the present laws but for the legalisation of all drugs.

NEWS FROM THE WORLD :

3383 23/02/2004
UNITED KINGDOM (Ulster)
CONSUMPTION
THE BBC
Northern Ireland’s Penitentiary Service says that in September 2000, three per cent of prisoners were cocaine users on the day of their arrival. By February 2003 the figure had risen to twenty-nine per cent.

3377 22/02/2004
UNITED KINGDOM
NEW IDEAS
THE OBSERVER / REUTERS
In an interview granted to the ‘News of the World’, Tony Blair announced that next month the government would publish guidelines for school headmasters/mistresses concerning the testing of pupils for drug use. This proposal has been severely criticised from many quarters.

3384 22/02/2004
UNITED KINGDOM (Birmingham)
NEW IDEAS
BBC
The police are trying with vigorous means to get the message across that cannabis, although down-classed to ‘B’ level, is still illegal. Recently this was announced in blazing letters on the huge electronic scoreboard during a football match.

3381 19/02/2004
JAMAICA
LAWS
THE JAMAICA GLEANER
A parliamentary committee has given its benediction to decriminalising the personal use of marijuana. Should this become law, users would at the very most be fined, at least the first time caught. But there is some fear of a ‘crack’ in the international anti-drug front.

3378 24/02/2004
CHINA
LAWS
ASIANEWS
According to recently adopted rules, peddling or using drugs is a violation of ‘Socialist ethics’ and reason for expulsion from the Chinese Communist Party. This puts drugs on a par with having a lover, watching pornography or visiting a prostitute.

3379 21/02/2004
ITALY
POLITICAL MOVEMENTS
ANSA / INDYMEDIA.IT
Rome, Saturday, 21st February: According to the organisers there were thirty thousand participants (according to the police, eight thousand) in the march against the new hyper-repressive drug law. Those favouring the law called the demonstration a ‘Drug Pride March’ and referred to the marchers as ‘nuts’ and ‘pushers’ pals’.

3382 20/02/2004
PHILIPPINES
STATISTICS
SUNSTAR GENERAL SANTOS
According to Interior minister Jose Lina, drug traffickers reaped about three billion (milliards) euros from amphetamines sold to about 1.8 million Philippine citizens. The nation consumes about 108 metric tonnes of drugs a year. Drugs have a greater turnover value than the three leading national industries put together.

3376 25/02/2004
U.S.A.
STATISTICS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
According to ‘The Partnership for a Drug-Free America”, ecstasy consumption among adolescents has dropped by twenty-five per cent in the last two years, standing now at nine per cent as compared with twelve in 2001. Ever fewer kids use marijuana, LSD and amphetamines. User percentage among the youths studied was fifty-one per cent in 1998 and is now down to forty-six per cent.

3385 20/02/2004
AFGHANISTAN
THE WAR ON DRUGS
REUTERS
A UNDOC report says that more than sixty per cent of interviewed Afghan peasants look forward to increasing their poppy cultivation in 2004. Last year’s crops came to 3,600 metric tonnes ­­ more than three fourths of the total world production.

3380 21/02/2004
COLOMBIA
THE WAR ON DRUGS
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (London)
U.S. federal authorities have added the leadership of the FARC as well as that of the paramilitary AUC to the roster of international drug traffickers. This means that members of both groups can now be extradited to the U.S., and their American financial interests, where such exist and are known, can be froze

[reaper]

Dear friends!

Above, you can see that the votes are growing. I’ve copied a similar post to a danish community:
http://dcfonline.dk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2977

For me it is only a game. But so we can simple learn to make mighty campaign! There are many sleeping communities!

good mornig and a hempy sunshineday in sweden!

meule/Klaus