In his book, Afghanistan 2001-2016. The New Opium War, Enrico Piovesana presents a graph, just before the preface, that illustrates the central thesis of the book: it shows the opium production in Afghanistan according to the data of United Nations and describes what happens. The data are surprising.
Are Italy and the American DEA out to ban effective heroin detox?
Medical Cannabis exponents all over the world have long suspected that narcotics police are more interested in preserving their monopoly over pain control than allowing patients to choose their own medicine. by Dana Beal
Encod Bulletin 137
Lets liberalise through our human rights-Let us cultivate and spread the true infos. Break a leg to all healthy cannabis connoisseurs Massimiliano Derviso 1/08/2016
Encod and the Italian Draft of the Parliamentary Intergroup Legal cannabis
A personal note from Enrico Fletzer Some of our Italian Encod members have asked the Steering Committee to comment on the first parliamentary proposal of more then 300 Members of the Italian Senate and of the Chamber of Deputies where the proposal is numerically at the strongest with about 220 subscribers.
Encod Bulletin 136
ENCOD BULLETIN ON DRUG POLICIES IN EUROPE DRUGS IN EUROPE JUNE 2016
13th International Conference of the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA)!
13th International Conference of the European Industrial Hemp Association
ITALIAN DRUG CZAR GIOVANNI SERPELLONI ARRESTED!
I don’t rejoice about people ending up in prison but the police putting Dr. Giovanni Serpelloni, the former head of the Italian Anti-drug Department, DPA, under house arrest, is worth some comment. Not only was he a good friend of the US counterparts that -after the shift from the Republicans to the Obama administration- have […]
Ana Antić: healing ms with cannabis – SKK Beograd IRKA
Ana Antić – Healing multiple sclerosis with cannabis and decarboxylated extract of cannabis flowers, during and after the pregnancy. 2. april 2016. Part of the testimonies made for Canadian production about healing with cannabis in Serbia and Balkan: “Cannabis is my medicine and I just want to be a good mother and to live for […]
UNGASS 2016 at the UN in New York
Many activists, NGOs and protestors refuse to go in the building and instead camp outside the UN in New York, for the 2016 UNGASS conference about the War on Drugs! Not only, because UN is a difficult place to get in at the best of times, but because they see it as futile, as many […]
No slowdown in legal highs flooding Europe, say drug watchdogs
There are no signs of any slowdown in the continuous stream of legal highs with more than 100 new psychoactive substances reported in 2015, according to a report by Europol and the EU’s drug agency.