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20 miljoen , 18.500 planten dat zou dan bijna 1100 euro per plant zijn, buiten wiet a 2 euro per gram zou het 500 gram per plant zijn geloven jullie het, ik niet.quote:18.500 wietplanten gevonden in bos Reuver
De politie heeft dinsdagochtend 18.500 wietplanten gevonden in het buitengebied bij het Limburgse dorp Reuver.
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De straatwaarde van de planten schommelt rond de twintig miljoen euro, aldus een woordvoerder van de politie, die sprak van een uitzonderlijke vondst.
De hennepplantage staat in een bosperceel van 75 bij 75 meter bij de Sint Willibrordusdijk, dicht bij de Duitse grens.
In het bos waren enkele waterbassins aangelegd voor de watervoorziening. Politie en een gespecialiseerd bedrijf zijn met bosmaaiers de plantage aan het ruimen.
Volgens L1 is het mogelijk de grootste plantage die ooit in Limburg is aangetroffen.
De plantage werd ontdekt door een tip. De politie praat met boeren in de omgeving van de vindplaats. Er is nog niemand gearresteerd.
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The Feds Are Incapable of Telling Truth About Pot
The country’s marijuana policies continue to be divorced from science.
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In her latest blog post, US National Institute on Drug Abuse director Nora Volkow claims that “science should guide marijuana policy.” But if the nation’s top anti-drug doc truly believes that facts, not ideological rhetoric, ought to shape America’s drug policies, why does she feel the need to keep distorting the truth about pot?
Writes Volkow: “Besides being addictive, marijuana is cognitively impairing even beyond the phase of acute intoxication and regular use during adolescence may cause a significant, possibly permanent IQ loss.”
Or, more than likely, it may not. In fact, the very study Volkow relies on to make this questionable claim was publically repudiated in a 2012 review published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That review suggests that socioeconomic differences, not pot use, are responsible for dissimilarities found among former teen marijuana users and non-users. In fact, once economic variables were factored into the assessment, the analysis reported that cannabis’ actual effect on IQ was likely to be “zero.”
As for Nora Volkow’s allegation that pot is addictive, well, a bit of context is necessary. Do a minority of people who experiment with cannabis at some point in their lives exhibit symptoms of drug dependence? Yes, about nine percent do so, according to the National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine. But this percentage is similar to that of anxiolytics and is far lower than the dependence liability associated with other substances like alcohol (15 percent) and tobacco (32 percent). So concludes the Institute in its report "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base": “[A]lthough few marijuana users develop dependence, some do. But they appear to be less likely to do so than users of other drugs (including alcohol and nicotine), and marijuana dependence appears to be less severe than dependence on other drugs.”
NIDA’s head also writes, “Brain scans in users who started when they were young show impaired neural development, probably because cannabis interferes with normal brain maturation.”
Hardly. Although a handful of imaging studies have identified slight differences in the brains of cannabis users versus controls, investigators have cautioned that these results are correlations only. It is further acknowledged that these differences do not appear to be associated with any overt adverse effects in subjects’ actual cognition or behavior. In fact, an authoritative review on the subject of cannabis use and cognitive performance, published by the International Psychological Society, concluded, “The results of our meta-analytic study failed to reveal a substantial, systematic effect of long-term, regular cannabis consumption on the neurocognitive functioning of users who were not acutely intoxicated.”
In a weak attempt to try and further bolster the case for maintaining criminal cannabis prohibition, Volkow states, “We do not yet know how marijuana will affect vulnerable populations like older people or those with physical or mental health problems.”
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The country’s marijuana policies continue to be divorced from science.
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In her latest blog post, US National Institute on Drug Abuse director Nora Volkow claims that “science should guide marijuana policy.” But if the nation’s top anti-drug doc truly believes that facts, not ideological rhetoric, ought to shape America’s drug policies, why does she feel the need to keep distorting the truth about pot?
Writes Volkow: “Besides being addictive, marijuana is cognitively impairing even beyond the phase of acute intoxication and regular use during adolescence may cause a significant, possibly permanent IQ loss.”
Or, more than likely, it may not. In fact, the very study Volkow relies on to make this questionable claim was publically repudiated in a 2012 review published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That review suggests that socioeconomic differences, not pot use, are responsible for dissimilarities found among former teen marijuana users and non-users. In fact, once economic variables were factored into the assessment, the analysis reported that cannabis’ actual effect on IQ was likely to be “zero.”
As for Nora Volkow’s allegation that pot is addictive, well, a bit of context is necessary. Do a minority of people who experiment with cannabis at some point in their lives exhibit symptoms of drug dependence? Yes, about nine percent do so, according to the National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine. But this percentage is similar to that of anxiolytics and is far lower than the dependence liability associated with other substances like alcohol (15 percent) and tobacco (32 percent). So concludes the Institute in its report "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base": “[A]lthough few marijuana users develop dependence, some do. But they appear to be less likely to do so than users of other drugs (including alcohol and nicotine), and marijuana dependence appears to be less severe than dependence on other drugs.”
NIDA’s head also writes, “Brain scans in users who started when they were young show impaired neural development, probably because cannabis interferes with normal brain maturation.”
Hardly. Although a handful of imaging studies have identified slight differences in the brains of cannabis users versus controls, investigators have cautioned that these results are correlations only. It is further acknowledged that these differences do not appear to be associated with any overt adverse effects in subjects’ actual cognition or behavior. In fact, an authoritative review on the subject of cannabis use and cognitive performance, published by the International Psychological Society, concluded, “The results of our meta-analytic study failed to reveal a substantial, systematic effect of long-term, regular cannabis consumption on the neurocognitive functioning of users who were not acutely intoxicated.”
In a weak attempt to try and further bolster the case for maintaining criminal cannabis prohibition, Volkow states, “We do not yet know how marijuana will affect vulnerable populations like older people or those with physical or mental health problems.”
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Ineens heb je het: je word coke-dealer.quote:Agenten met structurele schulden kunnen chantabel zijn en een veiligheidsrisico vormen.
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quote:Op woensdag 27 augustus 2014 17:15 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
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Ineens heb je het: je word coke-dealer.
Schoften! Bombarderen die extremisten!quote:
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Het artikel gaat verder.quote:De Orde van Advocaten heeft kritiek op de 'strafrechtstraat' waarmee justitie deze maand op festivals Lowlands en Decibel bezoekers met drugs in bezit een strafblad bezorgde. Snel en efficiënt volgens justitie, maar er komt geen advocaat of rechter aan te pas.
Op Lowlands werden 119 zaken ter plekke op het festivalterrein afgehandeld, bij Decibel 60. De acties maken deel uit van de zogenoemde zsm-aanpak van het Openbaar Ministerie, die bijvoorbeeld ook met de jaarwisseling veel wordt toegepast. Voor relatief eenvoudige delicten kan de officier van justitie zelf ter plekke een strafbeschikking uitvaardigen, die bestaat uit een geldboete of taakstraf. Op die manier zou de rechterlijke macht worden ontlast.
Strafrechtadvocaten Jurriaan de Vries en Christian Flokstra bekritiseerden de aanpak deze week in een opiniestuk en de Orde van Advocaten sluit zich daar nu bij aan. Volgens Bert Fibbe van de Orde leidt het systeem tot een 'onbehoorlijke rechtsgang', omdat de verdachten zonder overleg met een raadsman akkoord gaan met een financiële afdoening die leidt tot een strafblad. 'Daar kun je nog lang last van hebben.'
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As the officer took her away, she recalled that she asked,
"Why do you push us around?"
And she remembered him saying,
"I don't know, but the law's the law, and you're under arrest."
"Why do you push us around?"
And she remembered him saying,
"I don't know, but the law's the law, and you're under arrest."
http://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/quote:Global Commission on Drug Policy to launch new groundbreaking report
On 9th September, the Global Commission on Drug Policy will launch its latest report - Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies that Work, at a press conference in New York City, USA.
Since 2011, the Commission has worked with partners around the world to identify alternatives to the failed war on drugs. Taking Control recommends a new approach that puts public health, the safety of communities, human rights and development at the center of drug policy.
The new report includes groundbreaking recommendations for a major paradign shift in global drug policy.
To take the drug policy debate mainstream, the Global Commission on Drug Policy released a short animation film that explains the failure of the war on drugs.
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quote:Marijuana effect on drivers and deaths still hazy, researchers say
Officials worry that marijuana consumption, like alcohol, will increase traffic incidents, but studies still lack answers
As states liberalise their marijuana laws, public officials and safety advocates worry that more drivers using the drug will lead to a big increase in traffic deaths. Researchers, though, are divided on the question.
Studies of the effects of marijuana effects show that the drug can slow decision-making, decrease peripheral vision and impede multitasking, all of which are critical driving skills. But unlike with alcohol, drivers using marijuana tend to be aware that they are impaired and try to compensate by driving slowly, avoiding risky actions such as passing other cars, and allowing extra room between vehicles.
On the other hand, combining marijuana with alcohol appears to eliminate the pot smoker’s exaggerated caution and seems to increase driving impairment beyond the effects of either substance alone.
“We see the legalisation of marijuana in Colorado and Washington as a wake-up call for all of us in highway safety,” said Jonathan Adkins, executive director of Governors Highway Safety Association, which represents state highway safety offices.
“We don’t know enough about the scope of marijuana-impaired driving to call it a big or small problem. But anytime a driver has their ability impaired, it is a problem.”
Colorado and Washington are the only states that allow retail sales of marijuana for recreational use. Efforts to legalise recreational marijuana are underway in Alaska, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and the District of Columbia. Twenty-three states and the nation’s capital permit marijuana use for medical purposes. It is illegal in all states to drive while impaired by marijuana.
Colorado, Washington and Montana have set an intoxication threshold of five parts per billion of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in pot, in the blood. A few other states have set intoxication thresholds, but most have not set a specific level. In Washington, there was a jump of nearly 25% in drivers testing positive for marijuana in 2013 – the first full year after legalisation – but no corresponding increase in car accidents or fatalities.
What worries highway safety experts are cases like that of New York teenager Joseph Beer, who in October 2012 smoked marijuana, climbed into a Subaru Impreza with four friends and drove at more than 100mph before losing control. The car crashed into trees with such force that the vehicle split in half, killing his friends.
Beer pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and was sentenced last week to five to 15 years in prison.
A prosecutor blamed the crash on “speed and weed” but a Yale University Medical School expert on drug abuse who testified at the trial said studies of marijuana and crash risk are “highly inconclusive”. Some studies show a two- or three-fold increase, while others show none, said Dr Mehmet Sofuoglu. Some studies even showed less risk if someone was marijuana positive, he testified.
Teenage boys and young men are the most likely drivers to smoke pot and the most likely drivers to have an accident regardless of whether they’re high, he said.
“Being a teenager, a male teenager, and being involved in reckless behaviour could explain both at the same time – not necessarily marijuana causing getting into accidents, but a general reckless behavior leading to both conditions at the same time,” he told jurors.
In 2012, just over 10% of high school seniors said they had smoked pot before driving at least once in the prior two weeks, according to Monitoring the Future, an annual University of Michigan survey of 50,000 middle and high school students. Nearly twice as many male students as female students said they had smoked marijuana before driving.
A roadside survey by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2007 found 8.6% of drivers tested positive for THC, but it’s not possible to say how many were high at the time because drivers were tested only for the presence of drugs, not the amount.
A marijuana high generally peaks within a half hour and dissipates within three hours, but THC can linger for days in the bodies of habitual smokers.
Inexperienced pot smokers are likely to be more impaired than habitual smokers, who develop a tolerance. Some studies show virtually no driving impairment in habitual smokers.
Two recent studies that used similar data to assess crash risk came to opposite conclusions.
Columbia University researchers compared drivers who tested positive for marijuana in the roadside survey with state drug and alcohol tests of drivers killed in crashes. They found that marijuana alone increased the likelihood of being involved in a fatal crash by 80%.
But because the study included states where not all drivers are tested for alcohol and drugs, a majority of drivers in fatal crashes were excluded, possibly skewing the results. Also, the use of urine tests rather than blood tests in some cases may overestimate marijuana use and impairment.
A Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation study used the roadside survey and data from nine states that test more than 80% of drivers killed in crashes. When adjusted for alcohol and driver demographics, the study found that otherwise sober drivers who tested positive for marijuana were slightly less likely to have been involved in a crash than drivers who tested negative for all drugs.
“We were expecting a huge impact,” said Eduardo Romano, lead author of the study, “and when we looked at the data from crashes we’re not seeing that much.” But Romano said his study may slightly underestimate the risk and that marijuana may lead to accidents caused by distraction.
Many states do not test drivers involved in a fatal crash for drugs unless there is reason to suspect impairment. Even if impairment is suspected, if the driver tests positive for alcohol, there may be no further testing because alcohol alone may be enough to bring criminal charges. Testing procedures also vary from state to state.
“If states legalize marijuana, they must set clear limits for impairment behind the wheel and require mandatory drug testing following a crash,” said Deborah Hersman, former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. “Right now we have a patchwork system across the nation regarding mandatory drug testing following highway crashes.”
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As the officer took her away, she recalled that she asked,
"Why do you push us around?"
And she remembered him saying,
"I don't know, but the law's the law, and you're under arrest."
"Why do you push us around?"
And she remembered him saying,
"I don't know, but the law's the law, and you're under arrest."
As the officer took her away, she recalled that she asked,
"Why do you push us around?"
And she remembered him saying,
"I don't know, but the law's the law, and you're under arrest."
"Why do you push us around?"
And she remembered him saying,
"I don't know, but the law's the law, and you're under arrest."
Vanavond VPRO Metropolis. Over de wereldwijde veranderende houding t.o.v. wiet.
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http://www.vpro.nl/metropolis/nieuws/wiet.htmlquote:Op donderdag 4 september 2014 06:33 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
Vanavond VPRO Metropolis. Over de wereldwijde veranderende houding t.o.v. wiet.
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We krijgen een Surgequote:Er worden 125 medewerkers van de politie vrijgemaakt voor de aanpak van de georganiseerde misdaad in het zuiden van Nederland. De bedoeling is dat de extra agenten zich gaan richten op de bestrijding van de wietteelt, synthetische drugs en motorbendes.
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quote:‘Wiet telen heeft zijn prijs’: onthullende documentaire over de harde realiteit achter de cannabis-productie
05 september 2014
(Foto: Still uit documentaire)
MAASTRICHT - Dagelijks berichten media over het oprollen van wietplantages in woningen. De politie valt binnen, de plantjes worden vernietigd, de teler aangehouden. Een klein berichtje van meestal niet meer dan een alinea. Daarmee houdt het op.
Een aantal mensen heeft een documentaire gemaakt over wat er daarna gebeurt. In deze documentaire, getiteld ‘Wiet telen heeft zijn prijs’ wordt duidelijk gemaakt hoe hoog de prijs is die een betrapte teler én de maatschappij betalen. De teler wordt voor de rest van zijn leven financieel dood gemaakt en belandt als dakloze op straat. Zo komt hij in het zorgcircuit terecht, waardoor de maatschappij op kosten wordt gejaagd.
Het huidige beleid, waarbij de politie mensen, energie en tijd verspilt aan het oprollen van wietplantages in woningen, leidt tot niets. Het is water naar de zee dragen. Hier rol je een plantage op, daar schiet een nieuwe uit de grond. De productie van wiet neemt niet af, ondanks de invallen door de politie, die daarmee tijd verspilt, die ze aan nuttiger zaken had kunnen besteden.
Tegelijkertijd vormen wietplantages in woningen een serieuze bedreiging voor omwonenden en bewoners. En zeker voor de kinderen. Tel daarbij op dat grote schimmige - en onzichtbare - criminele organisaties op de achtergrond aan de touwtjes trekken en geld, heel veel geld incasseren, en het probleem wordt duidelijk: de kleine teler wordt gepakt, belandt op straat en raakt aan lager wal, terwijl de grote jongens karrevrachten geld incasseren en buiten schot blijven. Zo los je geen problemen op.
Kartrekkers van de documentaire ‘Wietteelt kent zijn prijs’, zijn Peter Hendriks uit Susteren en Henri Haenen, onder meer journalist voor dichtbij.nl in Roermond. Beiden besteedden meer dan een jaar aan onderzoek, trokken door het land om te praten met allerlei mensen die op enigerlei wijze betrokken zijn bij de wietteelt en maakten een voor iedereen goed verteerbare documentaire.
Ze brengen de gevaren en risico's van thuis wiet kweken letterlijk in beeld. Hoe mensen eraan beginnen, vanuit een roze wolk met het idee snel ‘te cashen’, en tenslotte worden opgepakt. Elke teler wordt uiteindelijk opgepakt, en altijd door anonieme tips.
,,Je kunt je ogen niet blijven sluiten voor de vaak gruwelijke realiteit”, zegt Hendriks. ,,De wietproductie ligt in handen van criminelen die er veel geld mee verdienen. Ze schromen er niet voor om giftige stoffen te gebruiken om de oogst te laten lukken. Wat wil je ertegen doen? Nog meer politie? Jaarlijks worden 6000 telers opgepakt, maar de productie neemt niet af. Rara hoe kan dat! Hier zijn alleen maar verliezers. En het kost de samenleving klauwen vol geld.”
Vraag betekent aanbod. ,,Zolang er vraag is naar wiet, is er aanbod van wiet'', weet Henri Haenen. ,,Het probleem ligt bij de achterdeur van de gedoogde coffeeshop. Waar komt de wiet van dan? Om dit probleem op te lossen, zijn er denktanks nodig. Mensen die deskundig zijn, en oplossingen bedenken. Mensen als burgemeester Paul Depla van Heerlen, en anderen die in de documentaire aan het woord komen.''
De documentaire voorziet in een behoefte aan informatie, voor bestuurders, ambtenaren, maar ook de gewone man en vrouw op straat. De documentaire laat het schrijnende leed zien dat een gevolg is van het thuis telen van wiet. Het voortdurend in angst moeten leven. Het brandgevaar. De buren die gevaar lopen. En de vaak onvermijdelijke huisuitzetting.
....nachtrijder...Nachtzwelgje!
Bullshit. De oplossingen zijn al jaren duidelijk. Welke lafaard schreef dit? Hij analyseert het probleem correct maar durft de oplossing niet uit te spreken?quote:Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 14:30 schreef Tism het volgende:
Om dit probleem op te lossen, zijn er denktanks nodig.
Bullshit. Het laat de gevolgen zien van de War on Drugs.quote:
De documentaire laat het schrijnende leed zien dat een gevolg is van het thuis telen van wiet. Het voortdurend in angst moeten leven. Het brandgevaar. De buren die gevaar lopen. En de vaak onvermijdelijke huisuitzetting.
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Denktanks? 
As the officer took her away, she recalled that she asked,
"Why do you push us around?"
And she remembered him saying,
"I don't know, but the law's the law, and you're under arrest."
"Why do you push us around?"
And she remembered him saying,
"I don't know, but the law's the law, and you're under arrest."
quote:Cartels now using drones to transport drugs into the United States..
Elements of the Mexican Army personnel in Region II and the II Military Zone, discover drug aircrafts thanks to radar that detects them. Once that happens, ground units go after the aircrafts carrying the drug. To date eight tons of marijuana, four kilos of methamphetamine, eleven vehicles , trailers, aircraft, 150 liters of jet fuel and $ 14,000 in cash. They also have destroyed 24 marijuana crops.
The main drug raids by air occur primarily in the north of the Baja Peninsula, General Brigadier, Francisco Tomás González Loaiza, of the Second Military Region, comprising the states of Baja California , Baja California Sur and Sonora, Mexico.
According to the military command, as part of the operations that have been enhanced to combat illegal trafficking of drugs in this region, in August 2014 an aircraft was detected in areas of the Second Military Zone between San Felipe and Tijuana.
Gonzalez said that as a result of operational radar that have been implemented, illicit flights have drastically decreased, once detected, the aircraft are held at the place of landing . He said that from 12 to 15 drug aircraft detected monthly, now they are down from two to three planes in the same period.
He said so only in the last month, the Mexican army destroyed ten illegal landing strips that more likely were used for airplanes carrying drugs, in addition, from January to date they have identified several planes.
And although he could not specify the number, he noted that in the area of Nogales, Mexico they have been detecting so-called light aircraft and also in the Mexicali Valley.
The Army General said the drug gangs also used drones to carry out their illegal activities, mainly in the transport of small amounts of drugs or for surveillance, but said they are easy to detect.
Tomás González participated in the Speech Forum for Security , where he said that organized crime had their headquarters and operations in neighboring states to Baja California, and they also have an array of high caliber weapons mostly imported from the United States.
He also said that they have increased intelligence actions to prevent a recurrence of high levels of violence, the main military bases are the Sentinel in Baja California and the Querobabi in Sonora, which significantly control the incoming drug trafficking from Sinaloa, South Sonora and parts of Chihuahua, which is home to the most marijuana crops in large scale.
Regarding the military checkpoint located in El Chinero in San Felipe, he said that is not a checkpoint in which many drug are seized in the regular basis , but serves to control the criminal activity at the time of planning their organizations routes .
Among the results of this month, all military regions have seized eight tons of marijuana, 4 kilos of methamphetamine, an assault rifle, ten handguns, 118 cartridges , eleven vehicles, trailers, aircraft, 150 liters of jet fuel , $14,000 in cash and a security house which are often used by organized crime to plan their strategies for their illicit activities.
Background
Reports obtained by police commanders say the Mexicali Valley is one of the main points for the smuggling of drugs into Arizona and California in the north of the town, mainly Los Algodones, Bataquez, Ciudad Morelos and Mexico are important points for the transfer of drugs. In the south a triangle between the towns of Guadalupe Victoria, Durango and Nuevo León, which runs near the San Felipe road to the Rio Hardy, (north west coast of Mexico, bordering Texas) where criminal groups use rural roads and make clandestine landing strips for aircraft in order to smuggle drugs from Sonora and Sinaloa to the United States.
Reports that have been sent to ZETA (Magazine that follows and reports activities of organized crime) confirm that warehouses are used to storage various quantities of drugs, due to the little surveillance by the police forces, there are transported to California or Tijuana.
A researcher in organized crime in the state agency recognized as hot spots the area near Los Algodones, where he says, most murders perpetrated there relate to competition for the sale of drugs of different groups who fight their distribution.
“He points out two groups, Garibay and people of Sinaloa, which apparently had a partnership break up, Garibay, joined the people of Guadalajara, and the people who have always handled that turf is the Sinaloans,” the agent added.
Local drug trade
On the issue of drug dealing, 2,600 people have been arrested so far this year, despite the lack of resources that the Attorney General of the State (PGJE) had. Just on Wednesday September 3 , 13 kilos of marijuana were seized in an operation in which a search warrant, was being served.
Finally, Ibarra said that they are working through statistics to get the hours, locations and characteristics of crimes being committed, while on kidnappings, so far there have been 27 cases in the area.
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Ja logisch nadenken is zonder denktank bij onze bestuurders blijkbaar niet meer mogelijk. En als men al een denktank heeft ingeschakeld nemen onze bestuurders toch een besluit wat tegen de logica van de denktank in gaat. Dit hebben we gezien bij het paddo verbod.quote:
Laat Opstelten het maar niet horen, tanks inzetten, wat een goed idee.quote:
Wees gehoorzaam. Alleen samen krijgen we de vrijheid eronder.
Beter veel te laat dan helemaal nooit.quote:
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Latin America’s Anti-drug Policies Feed on the Poor
Poor young men, slumdwellers and single mothers are hurt the most by anti-drug policies in Latin America, according to representatives of governments, social organisations and multilateral bodies meeting at the Fifth Latin American Conference on Drug Policies.
During the Sept. 3-4 conference held in San José, Costa Rica, activists, experts and decision-makers from throughout the region demanded reforms of these policies, to ease the pressure on vulnerable groups and shift the focus of law enforcement measures to those who benefit the most from the drug trade.
Today things are backwards – the focus is on “the small fish” rather than “the big fish”, Paul Simons, the executive secretary of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), told IPS.
The proposals set forth during the meeting recommended an overhaul of the legal systems in Latin America, to reduce incarceration and establish sentences proportionate to minor crimes. The participants argued that laws and the justice systems should focus on cracking down on the big interests involved in drug trafficking.
They also recommended that amounts for legal personal possession should be established, along with measures such as the decriminalisation of some drugs or the creation of markets controlled by the state, along the lines of what Uruguay is doing in the case of marijuana.
The current policies give rise to cases like that of Rosa Julia Leyva, an indigenous Mexican woman who now works in the Mexican interior ministry’s National Commission on Security.
Leyva was imprisoned in 1993 for carrying a woven bag with a small package of heroin, which was given to her by a friend who paid her plane ticket in exchange for help with her baggage. It was the first time she had ever left the Petatlán mountains in the southwest state of Guerrero. Until her arrest, she told IPS, she thought she was carrying money or clothes.
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Poor young men, slumdwellers and single mothers are hurt the most by anti-drug policies in Latin America, according to representatives of governments, social organisations and multilateral bodies meeting at the Fifth Latin American Conference on Drug Policies.
During the Sept. 3-4 conference held in San José, Costa Rica, activists, experts and decision-makers from throughout the region demanded reforms of these policies, to ease the pressure on vulnerable groups and shift the focus of law enforcement measures to those who benefit the most from the drug trade.
Today things are backwards – the focus is on “the small fish” rather than “the big fish”, Paul Simons, the executive secretary of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), told IPS.
The proposals set forth during the meeting recommended an overhaul of the legal systems in Latin America, to reduce incarceration and establish sentences proportionate to minor crimes. The participants argued that laws and the justice systems should focus on cracking down on the big interests involved in drug trafficking.
They also recommended that amounts for legal personal possession should be established, along with measures such as the decriminalisation of some drugs or the creation of markets controlled by the state, along the lines of what Uruguay is doing in the case of marijuana.
The current policies give rise to cases like that of Rosa Julia Leyva, an indigenous Mexican woman who now works in the Mexican interior ministry’s National Commission on Security.
Leyva was imprisoned in 1993 for carrying a woven bag with a small package of heroin, which was given to her by a friend who paid her plane ticket in exchange for help with her baggage. It was the first time she had ever left the Petatlán mountains in the southwest state of Guerrero. Until her arrest, she told IPS, she thought she was carrying money or clothes.
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Liberaliseer drugsbeleid wereldwijd
Het drugsbeleid moet wereldwijd worden geliberaliseerd. Regeringen over de hele wereld zouden verscheidene drugs uit de criminele sfeer moeten halen en in hun land een eigen gereguleerde markt opzetten.
Liberaliseer drugsbeleid wereldwijd
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Die oproep doet een groep prominenten, onder wie veel oud-staatshoofden en de ex-secretaris-generaal van de VN Kofi Annan dinsdag.
Oud-president van Brazilië Fernando Henrique Cardoso, die lid is van deze Global Commission on Drug Policy, legt uit dat de regulering zou moeten gelden voor "zoveel mogelijk drugs die nu nog illegaal zijn".
Middelen die te gevaarlijk moeten echter verboden blijven. Met dit pleidooi gaat de commissie een stuk verder dan de oproep uit 2011 om cannabis te legaliseren.
In deze commissie zitten niet alleen de oud-regeringsleiders Cardoso (Brazilië), Zedillo (Mexico), Sampaio (Portugal), Lagos (Chili) en Papandreou (Griekenland), maar ook oud-EU-buitenlandchef Javier Solana, Nobelprijswinnaar Mario Vargas Llosa en de topondernemer Richard Branson.
In 2016 wil de VN een topconferentie houden om de drugswetgeving wereldwijd te bespreken.
Liberaliseer drugsbeleid wereldwijd
Het drugsbeleid moet wereldwijd worden geliberaliseerd. Regeringen over de hele wereld zouden verscheidene drugs uit de criminele sfeer moeten halen en in hun land een eigen gereguleerde markt opzetten.
Liberaliseer drugsbeleid wereldwijd
Foto: ANP
Die oproep doet een groep prominenten, onder wie veel oud-staatshoofden en de ex-secretaris-generaal van de VN Kofi Annan dinsdag.
Oud-president van Brazilië Fernando Henrique Cardoso, die lid is van deze Global Commission on Drug Policy, legt uit dat de regulering zou moeten gelden voor "zoveel mogelijk drugs die nu nog illegaal zijn".
Middelen die te gevaarlijk moeten echter verboden blijven. Met dit pleidooi gaat de commissie een stuk verder dan de oproep uit 2011 om cannabis te legaliseren.
In deze commissie zitten niet alleen de oud-regeringsleiders Cardoso (Brazilië), Zedillo (Mexico), Sampaio (Portugal), Lagos (Chili) en Papandreou (Griekenland), maar ook oud-EU-buitenlandchef Javier Solana, Nobelprijswinnaar Mario Vargas Llosa en de topondernemer Richard Branson.
In 2016 wil de VN een topconferentie houden om de drugswetgeving wereldwijd te bespreken.
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interview op de site.quote:Wel of niet softdrugs legaliseren? De discussie zit muurvast en de drugscriminaliteit loopt de spuigaten uit. Hoogleraar criminologie Fijnaut bepleit een derde weg: besloten cannabisclubs.
De discussie over het drugsgedoogbeleid zit muurvast. In een manifest pleit een groep burgemeesters voor de legalisering van cannabis omdat de drugscriminaliteit in hun gemeenten de spuigaten uitloopt. Volgens minister Opstelten lost gereguleerde wietteelt de drugsproblemen niet op. Hij moet zich vandaag in de Eerste Kamer verantwoorden voor het feit dat hij zijn gedoogbeleid na het burgemeestersmanifest niet heeft gewijzigd. Hoogleraar criminologie en oud-politie-inspecteur Cyrille Fijnaut probeert de politieke patstelling te doorbreken. Binnenkort verschijnt zijn boek De Derde Weg, waarin hij uitlegt waarom zowel radicale voor- als tegenstanders van het drugsbeleid 'kortzichtig, naïef en onbezonnen' zijn.
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[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
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quote:Three years ago, drug law reformers were given their first stamp of approval by the international political establishment. There had been experiments already, some in major European democracies, but nothing quite like this. When the Global Commission on Drugs Policy published its report in 2011, it changed the whole structure of the debate.
Suddenly, drug law reform wasn't the preserve of hippies and libertarians. It was being promoted by former secretary-generals of the UN and former presidents from around the world. A report calling for the end of the war on drugs was being supported by men like Kofi Annan, Richard Branson and former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Paul Volcker. Among its members were ex-presidents of Brazil, Switzerland, Colombia, Poland, Chile, Portugal and Mexico, as well as former US secretary of state George P. Shultz. Finally, drug reformers had this eminently respectable body they could peg their arguments on.
Now, three years later, the commission has published a second report and they've really upped the ante. They're now laying out how drug reform would work in practise.
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[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
