Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Vienna
6 December 2008
Dear Mr. Costa,
REPORT ON NGO FORUM BEYOND 2008
Concluding remarks, about the NGO Forum “Beyond 2008”
Vienna 7 – 9 July 2008
by Fredrick Polak, delegate for ENCOD
THE CANNABIS TRIBUNAL IN THE HAGUE
SEE THE
[END CONCLUSIONS OF THE CANNABIS TRIBUNAL
>http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl4pldjizh4]
SEE THE DEBATE BETWEEN CDA SPOKESWOMAN CISCA JOLDERSMA AND LEAP MEMBER HANS VAN DUIJN
DRUGS AND DIPLOMACY
Workshop on the opportunities and capacities of drug user associations to actively participate in the design of policies that directly concern them.
UK: MASS CANNABIS DEMO IN HOME SECRETARY’S HOMETOWN
CAMPAIGNERS who want to fight the UK’s “out of date” cannabis laws are to hold a mass protest in Redditch to “hit” Home Secretary and town MP Jacqui Smith “where it most hurts”.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 18th
From 11 am to 7 pm
REDDITCH
More information: CCGUIDE
New videos from Vienna
Dear Friends,
Let me call your attention to our new videos filmed at the Beyond 2008 global NGO forum, they are available on our website:
War on Drugs: The New Jim Crow?
Best wishes,
Peter Sarosi
COSTA’S SELECTIVE EVIDENCE-SEEKING
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa arranged a study visit to Amsterdam on 24 April, during which he visited coffeeshop De Dampkring (the Atmosphere) and a user room (for inhalation and injection of heroin and cocaine), accompanied by two or three collaborators from UNODC, and high officials of the Netherlands Ministry of Health and of the City of Amsterdam.
Source: ENCOD
REPORT ON SECOND SESSION CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM
Report on the second session of the Civil Society Forum on Drug Policy in the EU, 20 / 21 May 2008
By: Joep Oomen and Martin Barriuso, ENCOD representatives at the forum.
Read also the official report of the European Commission
LETTER TO EUROPEAN COMMISSION ON ALDO BIANZINO
Today, 20 May 2008, the ENCOD delegation at the second session of the EU Civil Society Forum on Drug Policy in the EU handed over the following letter to the representatives of Director General Jonathan Faull of the European Commission Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security