Join ‘The Worldwide Rally For The Prince of Pot’, and show your
support for Marc Emery, the marijuana activist who is going to jail in
the United States for FIVE YEARS for selling marijuana seeds and
funding the cannabis movement.
ENCODS LETTER TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
On 12 August, ENCODs Steering Committee sent the following letter to Carel Edwards, head of the EU Anti-Drugs Unit, concerning the status of the so-called “European Action on Drugs”
As a result, the SC members had a meeting with Timo Jetsu, NGO liaison officer at the Anti Drugs Unit in Brussels on Thursday 3 September.
The report of this meeting is ready, but we are
currently waiting for an answer from the Commission to confirm that it
does not contain any misunderstandings or misinterpretations. The report
will be published as soon as possible.
LATIN AMERICA ON ITS WAY TO LEGALIZING DRUGS
Source: Latin American Herald-Tribune (Venezuela)
7 August 2009
A COCAINE EPIDEMIC?
Source: Financial Times
1 August 2009
People will tell you that the waste, destruction and misery caused by the prohibition of drugs pale into insignificance compared with the chaos that would follow a lifting of the ban, writes Tom Feiling. Making a substance as addictive as cocaine freely available would, according to Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, lead to a drug epidemic.
ENCOD PRESENCE IN FESTIVALS
Encod was present in the Paredes de Coura Music Festival 2009, in the greenest northern part of Portugal.
EQUASY – A HARMFUL ADDICTION
Equasy – An overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms
by Prof. David J. Nutt
Psychopharmacology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
[Journal of Psychopharmacology 2009; 23; 3> http://jop.sagepub.com ]
