L’ultimo rapporto ” Clima e cambiamenti climatici” del Dipartimento Terra e Ambiente (DTA) del Cnr sui cambiamenti climatici e i dissesti idrogeologici nasce dagli studi effettuati in precedenza dall’Onu ed ha come scopo quello di analizzare le soluzioni per ridurre gli effetti del cambiamento climatico. ... Continua

Il rapporto trimestrale dell’Istituto di Studi e Analisi Economica (Isae) presentato a luglio 2007. Vi si trovano illustrate le principali voci del quadro macroeconomico: Pil, inflazione, indebitamento pubblica amministrazione, avanzo primario e debito pubblico. ... Continua

Il rapporto, dal titolo “Informare Giocando” sull’uso e la prevenzione delle sostanze stupefacenti tra i giovani, è stato preparato su un campione di oltre 4.500 studenti di 45 scuole su tutto il territorio nazionale. ... Continua

(9) Marco Pannella - Drugs and Drug Addicts Marco Pannella, Founder of the Radical Party, Member of the European Parliament In 1975, the new bill on drugs being discussed in the italian Chamber of Deputies contains a glaring contradiction: on the one hand, it allows the use and possession of a “small quantity” of drugs for personal use, yet, on the other hand, it prohibits the trade, sale and production of drugs. ... Continua

(25) Joseph McNamara - Why We Should Call Off The War on Drugs Joseph McNamara, Novelist and Retired Police chief of San Jose, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The drug war has become a race war in which cops, most of them white, arrest non-whites for drug crimes at four to five times the rate whites are arrested. Drug war hysteria unfortunately causes a lot of cops to see non-whites as the enemy even though studies show that most consumption of illegal drugs is by whites. Furthermore, the huge increase in arrests has not deterred either drug sellers or drug users, but it does cause daily confrontations between the police and minority kids. Thus, in February, I was happy to join a politically and racially diverse group in signing a resolution asking the government to end the harmful war on drugs while increasing preventive education and treatment. The signers included former Secretary of State George Schultz, Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, doctors, educators, clergy from riot areas of Los Angeles and the African American mayor of Baltimore, Kurt Schmoke, a former federal prosecutor. All of the signers recommended the appointment of an objective commission to find better ways to discourage drug abuse. The resolution touched a nerve. ... Continua

(10) Fernando Savater - Is Decriminalization worth Considering? Fernando Savater, Philosopher, Author, Madrid Let us imagine that the information the public gets about cars came from two sources only: advertisements and the obituary. ... Continua

(26) Resolution to stop the war on drugs In April ‘93, in the United States, a group of experienced and prominent citizens met at the Hoover Institution on the Campus of Stanford University and signed a resolution asking President Clinton and the Congress to halt the war on drugs and to form a commission to recommend new approaches directed at reducing the harm the policies are causing. Among those who attended the meeting and signed this Resolution were: Dr. ... Continua

(11) Berndt Georg Thamm - Eastern Europe and CIS (I) Anything But Quiet on the Eastern Front From Polski Kompott to the Russian Mafia - Part 1: Eastern Europe Berndt Georg Thamm, Journalist, Founder of the German Association for Research on Drug Addiction Therapies, Berlin Preface Since the beginning of the 1990s Europe’s political landscape, so familiar for decades, has been changing: the socialist-oriented regimes in Eastern Europe have fallen, Germany has been reunified, the Soviet Union has collapsed and the Warsaw Pact has been disbanded, the Baltic States have regained their independence, civil war is raging in the former Yugoslavia and - last but not least - Croatia and Slovenia have been recognized by the international community and Czechoslovakia has split into two independent states, the Czech and Slovak Republics. The West’s intelligence services predicted a gloomy future during these developments in the East. ... Continua