On 26 August 2010 Bernard Rappaz, the Valaisan hemp grower sentenced to a five year jail term, started his third hunger strike in 5 months. He called off the earlier strike on 20 July protest after being allowed to serve his sentence under house arrest pending a federal supreme court ruling on the affair. This ruling has confirmed the sentence and Rappaz has gone back to strike.
Source: Support Rappaz
On 8 November, the meeting of the core group of the EU Civil Society Forum on Drug Policy took place. Encod is a member of this group (together with Correlation, Irefrea, INPUD, EHRN and EURAD).
The first meeting of the core group took place on 15 June 2010.
In an answer to a parliamentary question, Eurocommissioner Viviane Reding announces a new evaluation of drug policy in the European Union.
The question remains if its conclusions will have any impact on policymaking at all.
Source: The Guardian
2 November 2010
By Simon Jenkins
No minister has the guts to do what’s needed on narcotics: make it harder to drink alcohol, and legalise and tax the rest
HELP Free Taita Juan, A Major Indigenous Leader Imprisoned in the U.S.
AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE LEGALISATION DEBATE: THE DUTCH CASE
By Martijn A. Boermans, The Amsterdam Law Forum
28 October 2010