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ENCOD General Assembly 2018

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ENCOD invites all its members to the annual General Assembly, which will be held in the Czech Republic, at the Konopná farma Vranč Bítov 2, 671 10 Bítov, from the 21st to 23rd of September 2018. You are welcome to arrive at Thursday the 20th and return on Monday the 24th. Please register before the 14th of September 2018 using the registration form.

ENCOD General Assembly 2018

We are very happy to invite you all to Vranc’s farm, a beautiful hemp farm and recreational hot spot in the South of the Czech Republic. Featuring a hemp maze, we thought it would be a great place to convene and further unravel the possibilities for our organisation to manifest our objectives.

We look forward to strengthening our network with you, receive important updates on your regional and national developments and to present the steps we have taken in this last year to further ENCOD’s goals. Furthermore, we’d like to celebrate the 25 years that have shaped our organisation and would like to brainstorm with you over the next 25 years of ENCOD’s exciting future. Before the GA you can already start brainstorming by posting and discussing ideas on this Your Priorities platform: https://www.yrpri.org/community/858

Accommodation

Vranc’s farm is characterized by its simplicity. That means that for our nighttime rest we can make use of a shared floor with a capacity for 20 people. In the direct vicinity of the farm, there are also options for those of us who would like to arrange a more furnished accommodation. Please check the attached accommodation sheet for details and make sure to include your preferences on the GA registration form.

Travel

Nearby airports to Vranc’s farm are located in Brno, Vienna, and Prague. From there you can take a few trains or buses that bring you Znojmo or Morovske Budejvice. From either of these cities, travel to Šumná. From there you can take a bus to Vranc´s farm or be picked up by our ENCOD shuttle. The ENCOD shuttle will be arranged by Enrico Fletzer. His contact details will be shared with you when you register your attendance.

For public transport in and around the Czech Republic, please consult idos.cz. In the bottom, right on that page, you can choose Englisch or Deutsch. Make sure to select Bítov, Znojmo, as there are more places named Bítov in the Czech Republic.

If you come by car, please consult the google maps link in the first paragraph of this message.

What to bring (there will be some, but just in case)

Please bring a

  • Plate

  • Cup

Depending on your preferred sleeping arrangement you´ll might need to bring

  • Sleeping mat

  • Sleeping bag

  • Sheets

  • Pillow

Registration

For registering your attendance to the GA 2018, please use the registration form. Registration is possible up to the 14th of September 2018 but we’d be very pleased if you could register as soon as possible, so we can best prepare our meeting.

EC candidature

We strongly encourage all ENCOD members to consider applying for the position and kindly ask you to email your application (contact us to receive it) to ENCOD office (office@encod.org) before the 14th of September 2018.

Encod Executive Committee

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CSC Maribor found not guilty of drug trafficking in Slovenia!

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At the beginning of 2015, the police raided CSC Maribor on the basis of some reports from one or more citizens, which stated that Sanjin Jašar was selling weed and misleading sick people into believing that cannabis is a cure for their disease. The police found around 7 kilos of cannabis around 200 ml of THC and CBD extract, 44 plants and equipment for 6 grow boxes where some of them were waiting for the patients to collect them.

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Legislation on consumption & posession of drugs in France

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Consumption of any product listed in the first annex to the list of controlled drugs can be sanctioned with a one year prison sentence and a 3.750 € fine.

However, since june 2013, the pharmaceutical industry has obtained the possibility of requesting approval for the commercialisation of medicines containing the cannabis flower or its derivates, specially the synthetic ones.

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Pills not pints

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Twenty chronic alcoholics will be given doses of pure MDMA, a drug known recreationally as molly, or ecstasy, in a bid to wean them off alcohol, during a landmark experimental study set to begin in Bristol this summer.

“After 100 years of modern psychiatry our treatments are really poor,” lead researcher, Ben Sessa, of Imperial College London, said in his explanation of the study at the Breaking Convention conference in London this week. “The chances of relapse for these [heavy-drinking] patients are really high – 90 percent at three years. No one has ever given MDMA to treat alcoholism before.”

Prior to the study, which received ethical approval in recent weeks, the patients, who on average consume an equivalent of five bottles of wine a day, will be sent to detox, and receive two drug-free therapy sessions. Then, they will be given a high dose of ecstasy, and undergo an all-day counseling session, which will comprise meditation and one-to-one talks with a therapist.

“It’s using drugs to enhance the relationship between the therapist and the patient, and it allows us to dig down and get to the heart of the problems that drive long-term mental illness,” said Sessa, who said that the treatment isn’t “all about the drugs.”

As well as the innovative nature of the research, an obstacle has been the prohibitive cost of obtaining lab-grade MDMA, which costs about £40 per gram on the street, according to DrugWise, an official UK narcotics information website.

“We earmarked £3,500 for our 12g of MDMA, but we are now looking at £62,000 for the 12g,” complained Sessa, the Guardian reported.

Sessa, a clinical psychiatrist by training, calls MDMA a “remarkable substance” on his website, which highlights his track record of previous studies investigating the use of MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, a far-better established field of research.

“We know that MDMA works really well in helping people who have suffered trauma and it helps to build empathy. Many of my patients who are alcoholics have suffered some sort of trauma in their past and this plays a role in their addiction,” said Sessa.

According to campaigning group Alcohol Concern, 9 million people in England alone consume more than the recommended 14-unit weekly limit, which is equivalent to about 6 pints of beer, and in 2014 around 8,700 people died directly as a result of their alcohol abuse.