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Alice-Project in Vienna
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DRUG PEACE - Stop the War on Drugs ! - Conference & Protest - Vienna, 7.-9. March 08
In June 1998, the United Nations announced a 10-year strategy to achieve “measurable results” in the fight against drugs, including a “significant reduction” of the cultivation of cannabis, coca and opium poppy by the year 2008. On March 10th, 2008, the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs will meet in Vienna to review the results of this strategy.
In the past ten years, the war on drugs has failed – again. Consumption of drugs can cause problems, but prohibition of drugs causes disasters. Millions of people are criminalized, billions of euros are spent in a war that is ineffective and counterproductive. Efforts to reduce harmful and improve responsible use of drugs are actively thwarted by governments. Meanwhile, the drug market remains in the hands of organised crime, whose huge profits distort global economy and generate widespread corruption.
Drug policies should be a matter of public health, not of law enforcement. We ask the UN to establish the right of every adult citizen of the world to grow and possess natural plants for personal use and non-commercial purposes, using all technical equipment that is available for this. At the same time, individual countries should be allowed to experiment with drug policies that are not based on prohibition.
Vienna 2008 is the opportunity to send this urgent message to the United Nations. Please join us in Vienna.
Programme
Friday 7 March 2008
14.00 Meeting at Ernst Kirchweger Haus (EKH), Wielandgasse 2-4 1100 Vienna (U1 Keplerplatz)
17.00 Drug Peace March from PRATERSTERN (U1, S1/2) to the Vienna International Centre
19.00 Drug Peace Bike and Skates Tour
21.00 Afterparty in ARENA, Baumgasse 80, 1030 Vienna (U3 Erdberg), DnB, TechHouse, Goa, ...
Saturday 8 March: Drug Peace Conference
at Altes AKH, Hof 2, Hörsaal C1, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna (U2 Schottentor, U6 Alserstrasse, Tram 43,44)
Free entrance
14.00-16.00 Drug prohibition a convenient lie / Peter Webster (USA/France)
16.00 -18.00 The effect of drugs on the brain / DI Peter Rausch (Austria), Dr. Christian Rätsch (Germany), Jochen Gartz (Germany)
18.00 Dinner (Homecooked food - fresh and spicey - cooked with love and fantasy
19.00-21.00 Plants and politics / Beatriz Negrety Condori (Bolivia), Virginia Montañes (Spain), Joep Oomen (Netherlands)
21.00 -24.00 Drug Peace Concert: Alex (Austria), Peppe Voltarelli (Italy), ...
Sunday 9 March 2008
10.00-12.00 Cannabis: medicine for people and society / Dr Kurt Blaas (Austria), Martin Barriuso (Spain)
12.00-14.00 Race, class and drug war / Clifford Thornton (USA) - Raimondo Pavarin (Italy)
14.00 Lunch
15.00-17.00 Ibogaine - a therapy under the gun of prohibition / Dana Beal (USA), Jacques de Schryver (France), Boaz Wachtel (Israel), Patrick Venulejo, (Czech Republic)
17.00-19.00 Open Floors
19.00: Film: War on Drugs
The war on drugs must end. Help us to declare peace.
More info:
www.encod.org/info/VIENNA-2008-TEN-YEARS-AFTER.html
Info-Film:
http://videos.charon.at/encod/drugpeace.mov
http://videos.charon.at/encod/drugpeace.wmv
ENCOD - European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies
Lange Lozanastraat 14 B-2018 Antwerpen
info@encod.org - www.encod.org
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