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New Scientist

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"Although more and more people, scientists, politicians and intellectuals recognise that drug prohibition is a bad idea, the truth is that for the ordinary citizen, common perceptions are the same as they have been for decades. Drugs harm and kill, and therefore they should be prohibited! In the public debate and in the media, nothing is said that counters this. There is a huge gap between what is said by anti-prohibitionists and what is felt by the people who vote and elect those who make new policies."

Wired

"The study of drugs of abuse has traditionally relied on animal models -- mice, dogs and sometimes monkeys. But Hart's focus is part of an emerging insight: the best way to pinpoint the effect of a drug such as meth on humans is to study it in humans. His results have started to back this up, confirming that much of what we thought we knew about drugs of abuse may well be wrong. For example, his research demonstrates that marijuana can cause withdrawal, methamphetamine and ecstasy are difficult for experienced users to tell apart, and that meth -- not ecstasy -- increases acute cognitive performance, talkativeness and sociability. In the process of making these discoveries, Hart is rewriting the theory of addiction and pointing the way to better treatments. At the same time, his data raises intriguing questions about the complex and poorly understood connections between the ebb and flow of specific neurotransmitters and behaviour."

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Picket Line demos at Malaysian embassies in Europe

Dear friends

In cooperation with Encod members in London, Paris and Vienna, Encod is organising picket line demo's at the Malaysian embassies in the UK and France (on 4 March 2010) as well as at the entrance of the UN Centre in Vienna where the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs will be held (on 8 and 9 March 2010).

You can find a link at
http://www.encod.org/info/PICKET-LINE-IN-FRONT-OF-THE.html (London),

http://www.encod.org/info/REJOIGNEZ-NOUS-FACE-DE-L-AMBASSADE.html (Paris) and

http://www.encod.org/info/VIENNA-CALLING.html (Vienna)

Please let others know on these events sending them the message below, and if you want to participate in these events or wish to organise one in your own country, please let me know.

Best wishes

Joep

DRUG LAWS ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN DRUGS THEMSELVES

From March 8 to 12, 2010 during the yearly meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, governments from all over the world will once again declare their support to the global fight against drugs, i.e. the substances that were prohibited worldwide by a UN Convention in 1961.

In Malaysia, as in 21 other countries in the world, people who use or possess relatively small quantities of drugs, including cannabis, are sentenced to death. These sentences are mandatory: judges have no possibility to invoke any extenuating circumstance. Furthermore, the usual burden of proof is reversed so that an individual is presumed to be guilty unless he or she can prove otherwise.

International Conventions on Human Rights, various UN Human Rights Bodies and the UN Secretary General have expressed that the “death penalty should only be considered in cases where the crime is intentional and results in lethal or extremely grave consequences, not in cases of economic, non-violent or victimless offences. In those cases a death sentence may be considered as an arbitrary execution.”

The use, sale or trafficking of drugs is not intended to have a lethal outcome. People use drugs to feel good or to feel better, and as long as there is a demand there will always be a supply. Also in Malaysia, drug use has continued to rise in spite of the death penalty. The people who are occasionally caught by authorities do not have major responsibilities in this business. Killing them will not scare the drug gangs away. On the contrary: thanks to these punishments, the leaders in the drug business can continue to justify extraordinary high prices for their goods

Legitimized by the United Nations, drug prohibition continues to drive repressive policies and legislation including death sentence. These policies are typically rooted in moral in stead of rational arguments, and impede the development of progressive and effective responses to any problems that the use of drugs may cause.


FOR AN END TO THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG OFFENSES IN MALAYSIA AND ELSEWHERE

FOR AN END TO DRUG PROHIBITION

THURSDAY 4 MARCH 2010, 1 PM
JOIN US IN FRONT OF THE MALAYSIAN EMBASSY, 45 BELGRAVE SQUARE, LONDON SW1X 8QT (near Hyde Park Corner, Piccadilly Line).

JEUDI 4 MARS 2010, 1 PM
REJOIGNEZ-NOUS FACE DE L’AMBASSADE DE MALAISIE A PARIS – 2 Bis Rue Benouville, 75116 Paris (Métro Porte Dauphine)

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EUROPEAN COALITION FOR JUST AND EFFECTIVE DRUG POLICIES
Lange Lozanastraat 14 – 2018 Antwerpen - Belgium
http://www.encod.org/