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Therapeutic Use of Cannabis by Crack Addicts in Brazil
Friday, 01 October 1999This study ensued from clinical observations based on spontaneous accounts by crack abusers undergoing their first psychiatric assessment, where they reported using cannabis in an attempt to ease the ...
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Marijuana and Medicine
Friday, 01 January 1999The medical use of marijuana is surrounded by a cloud of social, political, and religious controversy, which obscures the facts that should be considered in the debate. This book summarizes what we k ...
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Draft Proposal by the European Union
Monday, 30 November 1998FOR PARTICIPANTS ONLY E/CN.7/1997/PC/CRP.10 1 December 1997 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS ACTING AS PREPARATORY BODY FOR THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEVOTED TO THE FI ...
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Draft Proposal United States
Thursday, 26 November 1998Draft Proposal by the United States, 27 November 1997 FOR PARTICIPANTS ONLY E/CN.7/1997/PC/CRP.9 27 November 1997 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS ACTING AS PREPARATORY BODY FOR THE SPE ...
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Proposal by Colombia, 27 November 1997
Thursday, 26 November 1998FOR PARTICIPANTS ONLY E/CN.7/1997/PC/CRP.7/Rev.1 27 November 1997 ENGLISH ORIGINAL: SPANISH COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS ACTING AS PREPARATORY BODY FOR THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEV ...
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A Lost Opportunity
Monday, 15 June 1998United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) New York, 8-10 June 1998 The "United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem" held from 8 ...
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Cheerleaders Against Drugs
Monday, 08 June 1998Manhattan is filled this week with world leaders attending a well-intentioned but misdirected United Nations conference on drugs. With drugs more plentiful and cheaper than ever worldwide, the leader ...
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Lessons To Learn
Tuesday, 02 June 1998The United Nations Drugs Control Programme (UNDCP) is rallying support for the UN General Assembly Special Session to Counter the World Drug Problem Together (UNGASS). The UNDCP hopes the meeting wil ...
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Caught in the Crossfire
Monday, 01 June 1998Drugs control is one of the most controversial issues of the late twentieth century. US-led efforts to wage a ‘war on drugs' have focused on wiping out production in developing countries, rather than ...
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Statement Andean Coca Producers
Monday, 18 May 1998The Andean Council of Coca Leaf Growers (CAPHC), which groups together men and women coca growers from Bolivia, Colombia and Peru, met in Puno May 17-18, 1998, to analyze the situation of our people, ...
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Full scope on the War on Drugs
Thursday, 30 April 1998An elderly cleaning lady enters the huge empty UN aula in New York with her polishing cart, to get the venue spic-and-span for an important upcoming meeting. A voice in the background explains: "Here ...
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Background briefing on UNGASS
Tuesday, 24 March 1998Background on the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drug Control Martin Jelsma TNI Briefing, March 1998 The "Special Session of the General Assembly to Consider the Fight Against the ...
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SCOPE: Strategy for Coca and Opium Poppy Elimination
Saturday, 14 March 1998UNDCPs 1998 plan to eradicate the cultivation of both coca and opium poppy by the year 2008 was a rare opportunity to re-think current drugs efforts. Member states were asked to endorse a plan, known ...
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Statement of Evo Morales
Wednesday, 25 February 1998Executive Secretary of the Five Federations of Lowland Peasants in Bolivia and President of the Andean Confederation of Coca Leaf Producers. Meant to be presented to the United Nations General Assemb ...
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UNGASS Resolutions on the world drug problem
Sunday, 22 February 1998Resolutions and declarations adopted at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) in New York, June 8-10, 1998.
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Strategy for Coca and Opium Poppy Elimination
Wednesday, 04 February 1998An International Strategy to Eliminate the Illicit Cultivation of Coca Bush and Opium Poppy (SCOPE) Commission on narcotic drugs acting as preparatory body for the special session of the general asse ...
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Cannabis use, a stepping stone to other drugs?
Tuesday, 31 December 1996Does smoking reefer lead to using other drugs, in daily practice usually described as cocaine and heroin? Raising the possibility that the answer to this question might be affirmative, is known as th ...
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The WHO Cocaine Project
Friday, 03 March 1995In 1995 the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) announced in a press release the publication of the results of the large ...
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The standard low dose of oral cocaine
Friday, 31 December 1993Coca tea has been used for the treatment of cocaine dependence. Two previous reports found that treatment that includes coca tea can be successful in controlling relapse to cocaine dependence. In the ...
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Coca and cocaine
Friday, 05 October 1990This article examines alternatives to the War on Drugs through a comparative analysis of attitudes toward coca and cocaine in South America. Two regions of traditional coca use and cultivation -- nor ...
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Development of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971
Saturday, 01 July 1989The 196l Single Convention did not include so-called "psychotropic substances" such as amphetamines and barbiturates among the drugs controlled. The discussions on the scope of control were focused o ...
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The therapeutic value of coca in contemporary medicine
Thursday, 01 January 1981Coca appears to be a useful treatment for various gastro-intestinal ailments, motion sickness, and laryngeal fatigue. It can be an adjunct in programs of weight reduction and physical fitness and may ...
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Report of the Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf
Monday, 01 May 1950In 1961 the coca leaf was listed on Schedule I of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs together with cocaine and heroin. The inclusion of coca has caused much harm to the Andean region and a hi ...
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