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  donderdag 21 februari 2013 @ 22:08:19 #101
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Mexico, Central America discuss war on drugs

San Jose (US), Feb 20 (AFP) Leaders of Mexico and Central America gathered today for a summit focused primarily on the relentless violence sweeping the region from the US-backed war on drug trafficking.

The United States says 90 per cent of the cocaine shipped there from South America passes through Mexico and Central America. In Mexico alone some 70,000 people have died in drug-related violence since the government deployed army troops to fight drug cartels.

Central America in the 1980s was ravaged by civil wars, and now finds itself again awash in blood as its serves as a gateway to the north, with penetration from Mexican cartels and grinding poverty that makes lucrative drug trafficking a lure hard to resist.

The violence has mainly affected an area known as the Northern Triangle. It is formed by Honduras, likened to one big airport for clandestine drug flights; Guatemala, penetrated by the most bloodthirsty of the drug cartels, Los Zetas; and El Salvador, which is enjoying a respite after a truce among street gangs.

The summit here in the capital of Costa Rica will be attended by Mexico's new president, Enrique Pena Nieto, Guatemalan President Otto Perez and President Porfirio Diaz of Honduras. It was not clear if Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua or Ricardo Martinelli of Panama will show up. Guatemala's Perez has called in recent international forums such as the Davos meeting in Switzerland for a change in strategy, saying the US-backed hardline approach is yielding nothing but dead bodies. He has suggested legalising drugs to remove the profit motive.

Pena Nieto has not commented on this idea. But he has promised a new strategy based on better cooperation among countries and more intelligence work, although he has kept army troops deployed in the war on drugs.

The countries at the summit will also discuss how to boost trade. Trade between Mexico and its smaller neighbours to the south has already quintupled over the past decade to USD 8.2 billion, according to the Mexican finance ministry.

This will be the Mexican president's first trip outside the country since taking power in December.
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  vrijdag 22 februari 2013 @ 17:08:32 #102
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  zaterdag 23 februari 2013 @ 02:27:17 #103
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De echte stepping-stone theorie: Het drugsverbod dwing de markt en gebruikers naar zwaardere drugs.

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Contrary to the above assumption, the “Iron Law of Prohibition” states that prohibition leads to higher dosage levels and more dangerous modes of administration. These consequences follow naturally from the illegal market. Black marketeers want to pack as much of an outlawed substance as possible into the minimum volume, which is the definition of a high-dosage level; and purchasers, because of the inflated black market price, want the biggest bang for their buck. Similarly, because injecting is so efficient a way of using an expensive substance, there is an economic motivation to use this more dangerous means of administration.

Under Prohibition, the United States went from a nation of drinkers of safe beer (low-dosage alcohol) to drinkers of higher-dosage and often contaminated whiskey. After Prohibition the country gradually returned to its preference for beer. Similarly, over time users have gone from smoked opium to injected heroin; from low-dosage cocaine in the original Coca-Cola to inhaled powdered cocaine to crack; and from lower THC levels in marijuana to higher levels. In addition, because marijuana is bulky and has a strong odor it has the black market disadvantages of taking up a lot of space and being relatively easy to detect. This drives up the price of marijuana relative to cocaine and heroin, and creates an economic incentive for users to switch from soft to hard drugs.
Experimenteren met drugs is normaal.

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A major study published in American Psychologist back in 1990 contradicted the assumption that drugs hook victims. Its findings, summarized in the studys Abstract, have long been known, but are startling to many non-experts, and are worth quoting here:

. The relation between psychological characteristics and drug use was investigated in subjects studied longitudinally, from preschool through age 18. Adolescents who had engaged in some drug experimentation (primarily with marijuana) were the best-adjusted in the sample. Adolescents who used drugs frequently were maladjusted, showing a distinct personality syndrome marked by interpersonal alienation, poor impulse control, and manifest emotional distress. Adolescents who, by age 18, had never experimented with any drug were relatively anxious, emotionally constricted, and lacking in social skills. Psychological differences between frequent drug users, experimenters, and abstainers could be traced to the earliest years of childhood and related to the quality of parenting received. The findings indicate that (a) problem drug use is a symptom, not a cause, of personal and social maladjustment, and (b) the meaning of drug use can be understood only in the context of an individuals personality structure and developmental history. It is suggested that current efforts at drug prevention are misguided to the extent that they focus on symptoms, rather than on the psychological syndrome underlying drug abuse.

In other words, instead of saying that drugs hook victims, a better causal model for drug abuse is to say that people with significant problems self-medicate. In addition, this description of drug use fits with what we know about adolescence. That is, in our individualistic culture, adolescence is a time of experimentation with different options during the transition from childhood to adulthood. Teenagers work summer or part-time jobs, and they are exposed to courses in a variety of disciplines so that they can make informed career decisions. Dating is an institution that provides young people with experience in forming, maintaining, and dissolving intimate relationships, so that they have a basis for selecting a life partner. In a similar way, teen experimentation with forbidden psychoactive substances can be seen as a way of learning their effects so that people can decide whether to use them in the future.
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Guatemala: Report of shooting involving drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was mix-up

AN VALENTIN, Guatemala — A Guatemalan official said Friday there was no evidence that Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, had been killed in a shootout in the rural north, calling such reports a misunderstanding.

Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla told local media that the original account was based on testimony from residents in San Valentin near the Mexican border, but that soldiers and police scanning the area found no sign of any confrontation.

“I apologize if there was a misunderstanding,” Lopez told the Guatemalan radio station Emisores Unidos. “It was a mix-up. We were referring to information generated from the area that there was possibly a crime scene with a dead person resembling El Chapo.”

Authorities mounted the search Friday in the tropical state of Peten, an isolated area known for the transport of livestock.

“As of now, we have no verification,” Lopez said.

An Associated Press photographer in the area also found no signs of shootout or victims, just a checkpoint of 12 soldiers stopping vehicles in an area considered to be held by Mexico’s Zetas cartel, Guzman’s biggest rivals.

Guzman heads the Sinaloa cartel, Mexico’s most powerful international drug-trafficking network, and has been in hiding since escaping from a Mexican prison in a laundry cart in 2001. He is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, as well as one of the richest. Forbes magazine has estimated his fortune at $1 billion.

Lopez said on Thursday that authorities were investigating whether Guzman was one of at least two men killed in the remote area. But the government later backtracked and said it had only received reports of a battle from local people.

Government spokesman Francisco Cuevas first told Guatevision Television that two drug gangs had clashed in Peten, an area that has seen an increase in drug violence and that at least two men had died in the shootout.

Later, Cuevas told Mexico’s Televisa network that authorities hadn’t yet found a body or the scene where reports said a shootout took place.

He never said what led officials to think that one of the dead men might be Guzman.

Ik zie die man voorlopig niet zomaar dood gaan, want blijkbaar heeft hij altijd behoorlijk wat beveiligers om zich heen die zwaargewapend zijn, dus men zal een kogelzee voor lief moeten nemen om hem uit te schakelen.

Daarnaast heb ik zo mijn twijfels of de Mexicaanse overheid hem echt wel willen pakken. Ik kan me voorstellen dat ze bang zijn voor een neerwaartse spiraal van geweld als iemand zijn plek moet overnemen of dat zijn kartel door interne problemen verdeelt raakt. Ook zullen de overige kartels op deze situatie inspelen en voordat je weet heb je een orgie van geweld.

El Chapo is denk ik vergeleken met de andere kartels een stuk zakelijker, waardoor de Mexicaanse overheid met hem wel een deal kunnen sluiten. Het zal dan ook niet de eerste keer zijn dat er zo'n deal wordt gemaakt.
  maandag 25 februari 2013 @ 09:41:49 #105
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De War on Drugs is een ecologisch probleem, en niet alleen vanwege het besproeien van coca-plantjes in Zuid Amerika:

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Staatsbosbeheer zegt dat de kans op een ecologische ramp reëel is nu steeds vaker drugsafval in de natuur wordt aangetroffen. Het gaat om overblijfselen van de fabricage van synthetische drugs, die vaak bestaan uit vaten met zuren en chemicalieën.
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  maandag 25 februari 2013 @ 09:52:18 #106
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http://www.spiegel.de/int(...)-drugs-a-884750.html

Een interessante beschouwing van Der Spiegel over de gevolgen van drugsbestrijding.
  maandag 25 februari 2013 @ 22:11:40 #107
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  dinsdag 26 februari 2013 @ 21:08:18 #108
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  woensdag 27 februari 2013 @ 19:31:26 #109
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De toestel spotte vorige week tijdens een routinevlucht een verdacht vaartuig waarna de Amerikaanse kustwacht werd ingeschakeld. Toen die naderde brachten de verdachten de boot met circa 500 kilo drugs tot zinken.
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De onderschepping had plaats in het kader van de operatie Martillo. Hierin proberen een aantal landen in de regio een eind te maken aan de drugssmokkel.
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  donderdag 28 februari 2013 @ 04:09:51 #110
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US drugs prosecutors switch sides to defend accused Colombian traffickers

After working to take down cartels, former officials say America's 'war on drugs' is misguided and the human cost too high

US prosecutors and other senior officials who spearheaded the war against drug cartels have quit their jobs to defend Colombian cocaine traffickers, saying their clients are not bad people and that United States drug policy is wrong.

Senior former assistant US attorneys and Drug Enforcement Administration agents are turning years of experience in investigating, indicting and extraditing narcos to the advantage of the alleged traffickers they now represent.

"I'm not embarrassed about the fact that I changed sides," said Robert Feitel, a Washington-based attorney who used to pursue traffickers and money launderers at the Department of Justice. "And I'm not shy about saying that no one knows better how a prosecutor thinks. That's what people get when they come to me. There are lots of hidden things to know about these cases."

The fence-jumpers include Bonnie Klapper, who was feted for taking down the Norte del Valle cartel, Leo Arreguin, who headed the DEA's office in Bogota, and reportedly former members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, Ice. They work in separate legal practices with their own clients, not as a group.

In interviews with the Guardian, Feitel and Klapper spoke of recognising the humanity of their clients and called for alternatives to a four-decade-old "war on drugs" which costs billions of dollars and incarcerates thousands.

Feitel (pictured) called for cocaine and cannabis to be legalised and complained that extradited drug suspects were treated worse than Guantanamo Bay detainees. "I don't think I could ever be a prosecutor again. The human drama that I see on this side is sometimes more than I can bear."

Artikel gaat verder.
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  vrijdag 1 maart 2013 @ 16:28:11 #112
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How the Sinaloa cartel “won” Mexico’s drug war

Sixty thousand lives later, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's crew remains in tact -- and could be getting stronger
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Compared to its humble beginnings in the 1980s, when it controlled only a single Pacific trafficking route into Arizona, the cartel’s territorial expansion has been staggering. Key areas it now controls include most of Mexico’s Pacific coast states and parts of central Mexico.

Even more impressive is its global reach. Sinaloa operatives have been arrested from Egypt to Argentina and from Europe to Malaysia. Properties attributed to El Chapo Guzmán have been seized in Europe and South America. US law enforcement reports that the group is now present in all major American cities. Recent US court documents involving the case of Vicente Zambada-Niebla, Mayo Zambada’s son, even suggest the Sinaloa cartel now controls the cocaine trade in Australia.

Earlier this month, Chicago named El Chapo Guzmán public enemy number one, the first to receive that title since the citys legendary crime boss, Al Capone.

Sinaloas share in the drug market is titanic. Even by the most sober estimates, Mexican drug trafficking amounts to over $6 billion per year, with El Chapos Sinaloa cartel controlling an estimated half of that market, raking in billions each year.

No wonder Forbes has listed El Chapo Guzmán on its annual list of billionaires since 2009.
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  vrijdag 1 maart 2013 @ 20:22:14 #113
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Noorwegen: heroïne-roken gedogen

Noorwegen wil het roken van heroïne gaan gedogen. De regering hoopt het aantal overdoses te kunnen terugdringen door drugsverslaafden van het injecteren van de drug af te krijgen.

Het land kent een van de hoogste percentages drugsverslaafden in heel Europa. Jaarlijks komen er meer mensen om door drugsgebruik dan door verkeersongelukken: 262 tegen 168 in 2011. Ongeveer eenderde van die sterfgevallen kwam door heroïne.

Chinezen

In Noorwegen zijn tussen de 8800 en 12.500 heroïneverslaafden, waarvan het grootste deel de drug spuit. Verslaafden kiezen vaak voor injecteren, omdat het goedkoper is, bovendien is de roes sneller en heviger. Dergelijk gebruik werd de laatste jaren oogluikend toegestaan.

Het roken van heroïne (chinezen) is minder gevaarlijk dan injecteren: behalve dat er een kleinere hoeveelheid voor nodig is, is de kans op overdraagbare ziektes kleiner. Minister Støre van Gezondheid vindt daarom dat chinezen ook gedoogd moet worden.

Niet legaal

Støre benadrukt dat gedogen niet betekent dat de drug legaal wordt. "Ik ben pragmatisch. Het gaat mij om de resultaten", zei hij op televisie. "Als injecteren meer risico's geeft, dan is het beter om roken ook te gedogen."

Volgens Støre staat een meerderheid van het Noorse parlement achter de plannen.
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  donderdag 7 maart 2013 @ 14:29:56 #114
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Theresa May orders study into which drug laws work in other countries

Review will look at 'depenalisation' in Portugal, but home secretary rejects MPs' call for rapid royal commission on reform

An international "what works" study of drug laws, including Portugal's policy of scrapping criminal penalties for personal possession, has been ordered by the home secretary, Theresa May.

But she has rejected a call from the Commons home affairs select committee for a rapid royal commission to report by 2015 on how to reform Britain's 40-year-old drug laws.

The international review, to be led by the Liberal Democrat Home Office minister, Jeremy Browne, will include a visit to Portugal where the policy of "depenalisation" with its strong emphasis on getting users into treatment rather than jail clearly impressed MPs. The Portuguese policy stops short of decriminalisation as trafficking and dealing in drugs remain illegal and subject to strong police enforcement action.

The study will also look at the effects of the recent decisions in the American states of Washington and Colorado to legalise marijuana for recreational as well as medicinal use. It will also look at the international response to the rapid emergence of new psychoactive drugs or "legal highs" which have been appearing on the market at the rate of more than one a week.

The move represents a significant official acknowledgement of the recent shift in the Westminster consensus towards drug policy reform, as well as the more radical approach of the Lib Dem ministers in the coalition.

"The government does not believe there is a case for fundamentally re-thinking the UK's approach to drugs – a royal commission is simply not necessary," says May's official response to the MPs.

"Nonetheless, we must continue to listen and learn from emerging trends, new evidence and international comparators. In particular we will build on the commitment in the drug strategy to 'review new evidence of what works in other countries and what we can learn from it' and conduct a study on international comparators to learn more from the approach in other countries," says May.

The home secretary's official response says the government has no intention of decriminalising drugs but adds that any debate of alternative approaches should be focused on clear evidence and analysis.

She adds that the review will look at a number of countries that cover "a spectrum of approaches" to drug policy and assess their effectiveness in cutting drug use and reducing harm to individuals and communities. Its terms of reference will include looking at best practice as well as the different legal responses to the emergence of "legal highs". Britain has a system of temporary banning orders for the new psychoactive drugs which remain legal to possess but not sell or import while a full evaluation is carried out.

Browne said drugs were illegal because they were dangerous and destroyed lives and blighted communities.

"Drug usage remains at its lowest level since records began with National Treatment Agency statistics published yesterday showing that the number of heroin and crack cocaine users in England has fallen below 300,000 for the first time," said the minister responsible for crime prevention.

"We have listened carefully to the recommendations made by the home affairs select committee and will shortly undertake an international study to gather evidence on successful approaches that other countries are taking."

Drug reform policy groups, including Release and Transform, both responded to the announcement on Twitter by questioning how open-minded the home secretary could remain while ruling out decriminalisation before the study got under way.
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"Drug reform policy groups, including Release and Transform, both responded to the announcement on Twitter by questioning how open-minded the home secretary could remain while ruling out decriminalisation before the study got under way".


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  zaterdag 9 maart 2013 @ 21:56:50 #115
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Former DEA chiefs worry Obama abandoning drug war

Eight former directors of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said in an open letter published Tuesday (PDF) that they’re worried the Obama administration is abandoning the war on drugs by allowing Colorado and Washington to legalize marijuana.

“Our earlier attempts to have the Attorney General announce that he will enforce the Controlled Substances Act in Colorado and Washington have fallen upon deaf ears,” former DEA administrator Peter Bensinger said in an advisory sent to Raw Story. “Sadly, at this point we can only conclude that it is probably not Eric Holder’s decision.”

All eight former DEA chiefs — John Bartels, Peter Bensinger, Robert Bonner, Thomas Constantine, Asa Hutchinson, John Lawn, Donnie Marshall and Francis Mullen — addressed their letter to Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who will question Attorney General Eric Holder during a Wednesday session of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Bensinger, who ran the drug war under the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations, added that if the Obama administration fails to sue officials in Washington and Colorado to stop legalization in its tracks, it essentially means Holder “is willing to abandon his responsibilities as the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States.”

The letter coincides with a statement by the United Nations’ International Narcotics Control Board, which urged the Obama administration on Tuesday to stand up for America’s international obligations to uphold marijuana prohibition.

Critics of marijuana prohibition, on the other hand, point to the social harms caused by criminalizing millions of people around the world every year for using a substance that’s less harmful than society’s intoxicant of choice, alcohol. A 2010 study published in the medical journal Lancet ranked alcohol as the most harmful inebriating drug of all, even above heroin and crack cocaine. Tobacco, similarly, was ranked roughly as damaging to society as cocaine.

Despite the latest science on drug abuse and the potential medical value of marijuana-based drugs, the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 considers marijuana to be a Schedule I drug with no medical value whatsoever. That scheduling means the U.S. government considers the herb to be more dangerous than substances like oxycodone, morphine and opium.

DEA officials who signed the letter to Leahy and Grassley also warned that officials in Colorado and Washington who engage in the legalization rulemaking process are committing felony crimes.

“Indeed, those who carry out the Colorado and Washington legislation are aiding and abetting violation of federal law, itself a felony under federal law,” former DEA administrator Robert Bonner wrote. “This may not be the perfect storm, but it can only lead to the perfect train wreck. That is why we are urging Attorney General Holder, as he did in the case of the Arizona immigration law, to file a lawsuit challenging the Colorado and Washington laws without delay.”

Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, sees things differently. “The former DEA chiefs’ statement can best be seen as a self-interested plea to validate the costly and failed policies they championed but that Americans are now rejecting at the ballot box,” he said in an advisory. “They obviously find it hard to admit that – at least with respect to marijuana – their legacy will be much the same as a previous generation of agents who once worked for the federal Bureau of Prohibition enforcing the nation’s alcohol prohibition laws.”

The Department of Justice has not announced whether any such lawsuits are forthcoming, continually saying that a review of the matter is underway. President Obama, who’s admitted to smoking marijuana as a young man, has previously said he does not support drug legalization of any kind, but as a state senator in Illinois in 2004 he called the war on drugs “an utter failure” and backed removing criminal penalties for small marijuana possession offenses.

It’s not clear if Obama’s views have evolved since then. Nevertheless, Obama said in December that he does not support legalization “at this point,” but added that the government has “bigger fish to fry” than adults who consent to using marijuana in states that permit it. His administration, however, has doggedly pursued merchants that sell marijuana in states that have legalized the drug for medical use.
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  zaterdag 9 maart 2013 @ 22:00:04 #116
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Uit bovenstaande artikel:

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The letter coincides with a statement by the United Nations’ International Narcotics Control Board, which urged the Obama administration on Tuesday to stand up for America’s international obligations to uphold marijuana prohibition.
De verbodsfetisjisten in NL gebruiken hetzelfde argument. Terwijl regeringen met elkaar internationale verdragen afspreken, misbruiken ze die verdragen om binnenlands te stellen dat het verbod niet verlicht kan worden.
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  zaterdag 9 maart 2013 @ 22:02:14 #117
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Cannabis decriminalisation measures across the United States, including the medical use of marijuana in California, have been sharply criticised by the United Nations, which has warned Washington they violate the international drug conventions.
US-politici haten de VN, dus deze oproep zal het legaliseren van drugs in de VS bespoedigen.
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  zondag 10 maart 2013 @ 18:33:34 #118
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Van 2007 tot 2010 bleef het aantal alcoholvergiftigingen redelijk stabiel, maar de laatste jaren laten een forse stijging zien. Vooral jongens tussen de 15 en 19 jaar gaan zich te buiten aan grote hoeveelheden alcohol. In deze categorie doet zich grootste stijging voor.
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De Tweede Kamer ging afgelopen week akkoord met een verhoging van de leeftijd waarop jongeren alcohol mogen drinken van 16 naar 18 jaar.
Conclusie: Repressie leidt tot misbruik,.

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De recente cijfers bewijzen de noodzaak van deze verhoging, zegt staatssecretaris Van Rijn in Brandpunt. 'Alcohol onder de 18 is niet normaal, naar die nieuwe sociale norm moeten we toe', aldus Van Rijn.
En de bestuurder draait het om. De ellende veroorzaakt door repressie gebruikt hij als argument voor de repressie.
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  dinsdag 12 maart 2013 @ 13:14:43 #119
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Geen misdaad meer in krant Mexico

Toegevoegd: dinsdag 12 mrt 2013, 12:10
Update: dinsdag 12 mrt 2013, 12:24


Een krantenuitgever in Mexico is gestopt met de berichtgeving over de georganiseerde misdaad om de veiligheid van de journalisten te waarborgen. Vorige week werd een journalist van een nieuwswebsite nog vermoord.

De Zocalo-groep geeft een aantal kranten uit in het noorden van Mexico. "We zijn verantwoordelijk voor het welzijn en de veiligheid van onze ruim duizend medewerkers", staat in een hoofdredactioneel commentaar.

Bedreigd

Vorige week hing een criminele organisatie, waarschijnlijk van het Zeta drugskartel, verspreid door de staat Coahuila posters op waarin de directeur van Zocalo wordt bedreigd. Daarnaast zijn de afgelopen jaren diverse redacties aangevallen, onder meer met granaten.

In het verleden zijn meer Mexicaanse kranten gestopt met de berichtgeving over de drugskartels.
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  woensdag 13 maart 2013 @ 21:05:31 #120
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Er zijn twee redenen voor de verontrustende groei. Ten eerste gaan meer jongeren drugs verkopen en produceren om geld te verdienen. Vooral zelfgekweekte cannabis blijft populair. Ten tweede zorgt de crisis er voor dat overheden gaan besparen op het drugsbeleid, vooral op behandelingsmogelijkheden en schadebeperkende maatregelen.
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  vrijdag 15 maart 2013 @ 13:19:35 #121
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Twee mannen openden het vuur in de bar; een van hen met een machinegeweer, de ander met een handvuurwapen. Over de toedracht van de moorden is nog niets bekend. Mexico wordt al jaren geteisterd door geweldsuitbarstingen, die vaak voortkomen uit drugshandel. Meer dan 70.000 Mexicanen zijn sinds 2007 omgekomen door drugsgerelateerd geweld.
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Gisteren in nieuwsuur weer een mexico rapportage.. burgers van dorpen bewapenen zich , omdat het leger en de politie omgekocht worden door de kartels...
  vrijdag 15 maart 2013 @ 16:03:36 #123
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U.N. development chief flags failings of "war on drugs"

(Reuters) - There is increasing evidence that the war on drugs has failed, with criminalization often creating more problems than it solves, said Helen Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Program.

Speaking ahead of Thursday's presentation of the UNDP's 2013 Human Development Report, Clark, a former New Zealand prime minister, said Latin American leaders should be encouraged to develop different policies to tackle the drug scourge.

"I've been a health minister in my past and there's no doubt that the health position would be to treat the issue of drugs as primarily a health and social issue rather than a criminalized issue," Clark told Reuters in an interview.

"Once you criminalize, you put very big stakes around. Of course, our world has proceeded on the basis that criminalization is the approach," she added.

Clark did not prescribe remedies to the Latin American governments but said they should "act on evidence," noting that she favoured treating drugs as a public health problem.

In recent years, many Latin American governments have begun to openly challenge the 40-year orthodoxy of the U.S.-led "war on drugs" that seeks to stamp out the cultivation and distribution of drugs like marijuana and cocaine.

Clark declined to comment on the responsibilities the United States should shoulder in any new drug policy and advised Latin American governments against adopting an "us-and-them" stance when dealing with the United States and consumer countries.

UNDP spokeswoman Christina LoNigro later said in a statement that Clark had not criticized the U.S. policy on the so-called war on drugs.

"She was speaking about the negative effects the drug trade has had on development in some Latin American countries in the context of the Human Development Report," she added.

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Frustrated by ceaseless bloodshed and a perception that the United States has not done enough to curb its own drug consumption, many leaders in the region are now speaking openly about the possibility of legalizing drugs.

In Mexico, more than 70,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since the start of 2007.

Supported by the United States, former Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who left office in December, launched a military offensive on drug gangs soon after taking office in late 2006. Rather than quelling the violence, killings rose and Calderon gradually moved away from his hardline stance.

At the U.N. General Assembly in September, Calderon and the leaders of Colombia and Guatemala - traditionally three of the most reliable U.S. partners on drug control - called on world governments to explore new alternatives to the problem.

In Latin America and other regions, calls are growing for new thinking on how to combat the trade in illicit drugs and the resulting bloodshed, Clark noted.

They have said "that the approach being followed has failed so we need a fresh set of eyes on this as well. And I think the debate going on at the regional level is a very, very useful one," Clark said, referring to Latin America.

The latest UNDP report argues that growing prosperity in the traditionally poor global south is driving gains in human development there. As a result, it said, "stronger voices from the south are demanding more representative frameworks of international governance."

Among those demands are growing calls to redraw the battle lines of the "war on drugs."

"To deal with drugs as a one-dimensional, law-and-order issue is to miss the point," Clark said. She stopped short of calling for outright legalization, but said the focus should be on keeping illegal profits out of criminal hands.

"We have waves of violent crime sustained by drug trade, so we have to take the money out of drugs," she said.

One of the arguments for legalizing drugs is that it would take away a key source of revenue for traffickers.

"The countries in the region that have been ravaged by the armed violence associated with drug cartels are starting to think laterally about a broad range of approaches and they should be encouraged to do that," said Clark.

"They should act on evidence," she added.
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  vrijdag 15 maart 2013 @ 22:54:01 #124
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Steve Katz Arrested: New York State Assemblyman Charged With Marijuana Possession

A New York State assemblyman who has opposed medical marijuana legislation was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of marijuana after he was pulled over for speeding this week.

In a statement released Friday, authorities reported that state police discovered Steve Katz had a "small bag" of marijuana in his possession during a traffic stop on the New York State Thruway around 10 a.m. Thursday.

A New York State Trooper noticed the smell of marijuana after stopping the 59-year-old assemblyman for driving 80 miles per hour in 65 mph zone. Katz was taken into custody and charged with possession before being released.

The arrest is particularly curious since Katz, who represents parts of Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties, voted against the legalization of medical marijuana in June. As the New York Times notes, the Republican assemblyman also serves on New York's Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee.

Katz addressed the "unfortunate incident" during a press conference Friday.

"This should not overshadow the work I have done over the years for the public and my constituency,” Katz told reporters. "I am confident that once the facts are presented that this will quickly be put to rest."

The assemblyman was first elected to represent New York's District 94 in 2010, and was reelected in 2012 for another two-year term. He is expected to appear in court for the possession charge on Mar. 28.
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  zondag 17 maart 2013 @ 09:34:26 #125
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Among the most prominent and vocal opponents of the UN’s ongoing narcotics machinations is Socialist Bolivian President Evo Morales (shown), who slammed the global prohibition regime as a failure. Even former Soviet Communist diplomat-turned planetary drug czar Yury Fedotov, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (ODC), admitted as much when he said "the overall prevalence of drug use is not decreasing.” Morales, however, went much further.

Speaking to the 56th session of the UN CND on Monday, the fiery South American leader said the international war has caused soaring violence and is being used as an "instrument of geopolitical domination." In typical fashion, Morales also took swipes at the U.S. government, which under Obama has expanded its ruthless, unconstitutional campaign of terror throughout Latin America under the guise of fighting the UN-mandated drug war. Morales slammed what he termed the “political use" of the drug war by "certain powers.”
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While Morales was busy denouncing the UN-mandated drug war, a prominent U.S.-based organization known as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) was in Vienna making its case for total legalization of all drugs. The increasingly influential coalition of lawmen — judges, prosecutors, police officers, and others; people who have served on the front lines of the “war” and know what it really is — sent a four-member delegation to the UN summit.

LEAP Executive Director Neill Franklin, a 34-year law enforcement veteran of the Maryland State Police and Baltimore Police Department, says that ending drug prohibition would reduce violence, eviscerate the cartels, protect taxpayers, and more. He told The New American that UN mandates on the drug war were having a negative effect, and that it was time to call it quits when it comes to having the international organization ordering national governments to wage endless war on unapproved substances.

“We live in a global society in which each country is impacted by the actions of every other. This is particularly true in the war on drugs where the mandates of the UN system of drug prohibition greatly restrict the types of reforms countries can enact,” Franklin explained in an e-mail. “We're talking about a quickly adaptable multinational system of trade powered by forces that are more powerful than some countries — and a substantial part of the national economy of others.”
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Critics of the failed UN-mandated prohibition approach often point to Portugal, which decriminalized all drugs — everything from marijuana to cocaine and heroin — about a decade ago. Studies show that since then, drug abuse has been cut in half already. Drug-related crime has also plummeted. Indeed, around the world, and especially in Latin America and parts of Europe, the Portuguese model is being seen as increasingly promising — especially when compared to the unconstitutional U.S. drug war mandated by the UN in direct conflict with the American Constitution.

Other elements that came under fierce criticism at the Vienna summit were outlandish UN claims that U.S. states were not free to set their own policies on marijuana. Citing invalid international treaties purporting to mandate a planetary war on drugs, the global body’s top drug warriors blasted voters in states like Colorado and Washington for legalizing the controversial plant for recreational use.

Even the 20 or so states that have nullified unconstitutional federal statutes by approving cannabis for medicinal use were attacked by the UN, which claimed it “warned” the Obama administration to crack down on the phenomenon. However, as Thomas Jefferson and the U.S. Supreme Court, among others, have explained, the federal government cannot expand its powers simply by ratifying treaties, and the Constitution does not provide any authority to regulate substances — that is why alcohol prohibition required an amendment.
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