Spain To Allow Doctors To Prescribe Cannabis

**Mystic Power** · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject:

Good for Spain!

One of the hidden benefits of having the entire world pissed off at the U.S. is a cooling of other countries' willingness to follow U.S. driven world-wide WOD policies.

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**Ferre** · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject:

Well, the truth is that America is loosing touch with reality when it comes down to foreign politics. Iraq isn't the only example, the European parliament has only recently decided to evaluate the effects of the present (American) drug laws/war and will use the outcome of this evaluation in the discussion for the future drug policies. America doesn't like that at all because all the statistics show the drug war is a failiure and only causes more harm than good to society. Their desperate attempts lately to influence the UN and European community regarding drug policies has highlighted their imcompetence more than they had imagined.

America is loosing political credits everywhere when it comes down to their wars and they don't have the political support they used to have anymore.

Belgium has decriminalized the use and possesion of cannabis last week also btw, 3 grams is allowed now.
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entropical · Full member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 95

I dont want anyone to get the impression that Europe is moving away from it, the drug war continues also in Europe and there is a serious divide between hardliners and reformers within the Union.

Even though some countries are making moves to reform, others - like Denmark and Italy for example - are going in the opposite direction toward recriminalization. And Sweden has defined liberalization of drug policies in new memberstates as the chief threat to national security.

Within the European Union is the same basically. While the European Parliament recommends evaluation of the drug war, the Council and the Horizontal Working Group on Drugs is demanding prohibition of "pro-drug sites" on the Internet.
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**Ferre** · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject:

Yep but they recently kind of apologized for this in a letter to ENCOD as they call it "slip of the pen". The awareness in general in the European politics about the benefits of "harm reduction" is spreading, not only on Europe btw, Brasil just recently announced to reform its drug laws and go the path of harm reduction too.

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Smile

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**Torkel** · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject:

Go, world... Let the light SHINE

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Echo · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:30 pm Post subject:

Never believe in a slip of a pen. We were just not supposed to know yet, that's all in my view.
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**Mystic Power** · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:37 pm Post subject: