Source: Liberation Contact: Website: http://www.liberation.fr/ *NOTE: This is the first of the posts to the MAP news service on the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs June 8-10, 1998 and the Global Days against the Drug War, June 5-10. Your MAP news editing/posting team, with the help of all the newshawks and 99 organizations around the world, will do our best to bring you all the news worldwide on these events. The related articles will have the code GE: in the subject line for easy identification. Future articles will not be posted to the Events list, but will be available at: http://www.DrugSense.org/drugnews/ or by signing up for one of the email versions of our news service at: http://www.MAPinc.org/lists/ Please send any related articles to However, please send plain text in a message, not HTML or attachments, which will not process thru our system. We will attempt to translate articles sent in other languages; however, because of the limits of our text based system which does not always handle none English characters well, the translations may be a little rough. Please forgive us for any errors that may result. We used AltaVista Babelfish at: http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/ to translate the below. Newshawks may have better luck with translations to translate it for us first, using the above website as needed, before sending it to because of what may be lost as the text passes thru our roboeditor system. DrugSense is now building special links on its home webpage for these events at: http://www.DrugSense.org/ - -- Richard Lake, Sr. Editor, The Media Awareness Project of DrugSense MANIF IN JUNE FOR A DEBATE ON DRUG The Greens, the League of the Human Rights and, for the premiere time, the Trade Union of the Magistrature call a demonstration, June 7 Paris, to require the abrogation of the article L630 of the code of the public health, which reprime the use of drugs and the incentive. Watchword: Legalisez the debate on drugs. The place: place Bastille. Other organizers: Act-Up Paris, Asud, the Radical Party of Left, etc. Their goal, according to Jean-Luc Bennhamias, spokesman of the Greens: to leave hypocrisy and the diabolisation on the question. And to make reduction of the risks a priority of public health. [the French original, which did not come thru well because of characters not in the English character [ASCII]] Subj: Manif en juin pour un debat sur la drogue Source: Liberation Contact: http://www.liberation.fr Manif en juin pour un debat sur la drogue Les Verts, la Ligue des droits de l'homme et, pour la premiere fois, le Syndicat de la magistrature appellent une manifestation, le 7 juin Paris, pour demander l'abrogation de l'article L630 du code de la sante publique, qui reprime l'usage de drogue et l'incitation. Mot d'ordre : Legalisez le debat sur les drogues. Le lieu : place de la Bastille. Les autres organisateurs : Act-Up Paris, Asud, le Parti radical de gauche, etc. Leur but, selon Jean-Luc Bennhamias, porte-parole des Verts : sortir de l'hypocrisie et la diabolisation sur la question. Et faire de la reduction des risques une priorite de sante publique. - -- Rapha? CARREZ - --- Checked-by: Richard Lake