DUTCH PSYCHIATRIST WIM VAN DEN BRINK (AMSTERDAM INSTITUTE FOR ADDICTION RESEARCH->http://www.amc.nl/index.cfm?pid=115]) DEFENDS [DECRIMINALIZATION OF CANNABIS
Source: Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2008, 21
SPANISH JUDGE ACQUITS CANNABIS GROWER FOR MEDICINAL USE
Source: BBS News
March 17 2008
Author: Michael Hess
A grower of cannabis for personal medical use was found not guilty by a judge
HANDS OF OUR COCA
[New Statesman (UK)
>http://info.newstatesman.com/?jlnk=lsl0010]
11 March 2008
By: Hugh O’Shaughnessy
COCA COLA’S OWN REPORT IMPLICATES COMPANY FOR ABUSES IN INDIA
Source: [India Resource Center
>http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2008/cokeimplicatedteri.html]
March 13, 2008
by Amit Srivastava
The Coca-Cola company is up to its old tricks again.
NL: MAYORS WANT EFFECTIVE, NOT IDEOLOGICAL, DRUG POLICY
Source: NRC Handelsblad
March 4, 2008
By: Ruud Vreeman, mayor of Tilburg; Gerd Leers, mayor of Maastricht; Job Cohen , mayor of Amsterdam; Boris van der Ham, MP for D66 (left liberals); Krista van Velzen, MP for SP (left socialist party).
As far as drug policy goes: effect is what counts, not the ideology.
VICTORY (FOR NOW) FOR COLOMBIAN COCA GROWERS
Source: The Narco News Bulletin
March 10, 2008
By Dan Feder
Weeks of Intense Protest End with an Agreement to Switch to Legal Crops in Return for Government Support