The health of each individual is dependant on his body working appropriately.
Source: Harm Reduction Journal
By: Robert Melamede, University of Colorado
DRUG POLICIES THREATEN HIV TREATMENT
HIV treatment, injection drug use, and illicit drug policies
Source: The Lancet
Vol 370 July 7, 2007
A DAY OF SADNESS AND HOPE, JULY 2007
On the occasion of the Day of Protest, Action and Sadness, 21 July 2007
To: Bundesverband der Eltern und Angehörigen für akzeptierende Drogenarbeit e.V, c/o Jürgen Heimchen
TIME TO CHANGE
Time to change.
The war against drugs has become a war against citizens
Press Release of the European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies
June 27th 2007
ANTI COCA HERBICIDES CHANGE DNA
Studies Find DNA Damage From Anti-Coca Herbicide
By Stephen Leahy
Source: Tierramérica
Saturday 16 June 2007
A DRUG FREE WORLD, CAN WE DO IT?
We can score one for the naysayers
Dan Gardner
Source: [The Ottawa Citizen
>http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/index.html]
Friday, June 15, 2007
COPING WITH A HYPOCRIT POLICY: NETHERLANDS
On June 1st, Dutch police acted against coffeeshop Checkpoint in Terneuzen, close to the border with Belgium. In the shop itself and in a private house related to the shop, an amount of almost 100 kilos of cannabis was found that was meant to be sold through the coffeeshop.
Checkpoint, an ENCOD member, is one of the largest coffeeshops in the Netherlands with an average of 2.500 visitors, most of them from Belgium and France. Checkpoint has always co-operated constructively with local authorities to find practical solutions to public order problems in the city related to the coffeeshop tourism, making Terneuzen one of the places where a tolerant approach to cannabis is proving a success. Therefore this police action may fit in a strategy of police and justice to block this process.
PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR CANNABIS LEGALISATION IN THE EU
From a survey carried out last year by the EUROBAROMETER it turns out that 26 % of EU citizens is in favour of legalisation of cannabis.
AGAINST THE CRIMINALIZATION OF HEMP FAIRS, MARCH 2006
From 24 to 26 February 2006, the third edition of the yearly Spannabis fair, on technologies to grow and consume the hemp plant, will take place in the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain. Earlier editions of Spannabis and other hemp fairs, which have been organised across Europe since various years, have received between 10 and 15 thousand visitors.
