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Spain and cocaine: the press goes too far

"Spain is thus crossed, marked, damn drawn by these 'bars' ... For an exorbitant and unstoppable consumption of cocaine and the drug traffic of almost unimaginable. "Pilar de Cambra
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If Diogenes of Sinope was walking in Athens with a lantern looking for a man without finding him, the undersigned has not had much more luck in their search for a English media that have been swept up by hysteria planted by the UN in its annual report. Hysteria, I must say, very interested in the case of Spain and accompanied by an obscene message triumphalism with respect to the drug work of the International Narcotics Control. Try removing the headlines, point by point that generated the report in our country, the most striking to the most droll.


" The rate of cocaine use in Spain than the U.S. '
press insists on ignoring the various types of use: experimental, occasional, habitual, frequent and daily . Moreover, the ideology denies any distinction between drug use and abuse, and the sum of these two factors comes the error. It is true that Spain beats U.S. in two tenths of a percent (0.2 percent) in sporadic use (at least once during a year), but it is also true, and so noted in the report's chapter dedicated cocaine (page 90), the percentage of problematic drug users, nearly triple the U.S. into English (1.4% vs 0.5%).

There is no doubt that the omitted factor is more important than leading the headlines, but the hype is like cocaine, once you start, you can not stop. Have been too many media that have been classified as "cocaine" to this 3 percent of the population aged 15 to 64 years, but nobody in their right mind would call an "alcoholic" to anyone who had had at least one glass of wine over a year. It is clear that the U.S. situation is far more worrying than ours, and surely will remain so for many years.


"The use of cocaine in Spain four times the European average"
has systematically forgotten that joining the European Union, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus in 2004, and Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, relates to Spain to quadruple the current European average consumption of cocaine. In the recently admitted Eastern European countries within the EU, the use of this drug is significantly lower than that of older members. As the UN report, if we limit ourselves to the above countries to these extensions, the ratio is twice the European average.


"More stripes in Miranda de Ebro in London"
... or the second city in the world in cocaine use after New York. Is more than justified the indignation of the Mirandeses, and many have pointed out that the greatest threat to public health in the city comes from pollution, a problem that will worsen with the forthcoming installation of two thermal power stations . But there is no moral panics about the harm suffered by all citizens alike (particularly acute for children ), and yes to some of them are inflicted by their habits more or less insane, but, unlike contamination provided volunteers. For if the owner was not absurd enough already, a recent study commissioned by the city of Miranda no trace of cocaine in the waters of the Ebro passing through this city.


"At last we are first in something"
a year ago, a record far more sad that this went unnoticed: our European leadership in prison population rate per 100,000 inhabitants. This brand, coupled with being the EU country with over 500 euro notes in circulation and where the real estate business closest to metastasis, also has much to do with drugs, money laundering, corruption and mafias, much as journalists are unable to relate these phenomena to each other. Mercedes Gallizo response to this outrageous growth of our prison population was, "If Spain decides it must be the country with more prisoners per capita, we assume. " Personally I prefer to triple the use of cocaine to continue to multiply exponentially the number of prisoners.

All this requires us to think that traditional media are becoming irrelevant, not only by his tendency to exaggerate, misrepresent and distort the facts, but because issues like this, any individual can access the data they ('professional information ') do not bother to look. Not for ENCOD has dived in the report and found a blatant distortion of the UN figures on hectares of coca

"Estimates of coca crops in the United Nations seems extremely low, while the U.S. office for the national policy of drug control indicates that there are 157,200 hectares of coca harvested in Colombia in 2006 , the UN stands at 78,000 hectares. "

said at the outset that very few have been deeply concerned in this story. Three examples of reliable information in a sea of \u200b\u200bapathy, propaganda and complacency:

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Time Change - The World Drug Report UN suffers from delusions
- Cocaine in Spain: Truth and Lies

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Joan Saura: noise, anger and the idiots

of laughter is the reaction caused between the right and the house of opinólogos statements related Joan Saura in favor of legalizing all drugs. The chorus of clowns who until yesterday had been complaining with great fanfare the prohibition of the Socialist Party has left its ignorant, petty and miserable vein Taliban at the very public expression of the long-standing belief of the Minister of Interior antiprohibitionist the Catalan government.

This convenience liberalism, which puts the fuss when it comes to regulating the damage to third parties of snuff, alcohol advertising directed to minors and require compliance to agreements signed by a multinational burger crumbles like a house of cards when someone denounces the only truly effective ban in Spain which has made us, not a "drug haven "as stated by the fool's Party, Daniel Sirera, but mafias, rampant corruption and money laundering , issues that should occupy the first row of public debate in Spain. Of course, given the trajectory of the first opposition party, which strives to enhance a range of issues of interest to only its acolytes while hidden, minimized or denied his role in this state of affairs not expect a serious approach on their part of the many problems associated with drug policy as ineffective and unfair.

receipt is not accused of electoral opportunism Joan Saura regarding legalization. In the interview that has generated controversy asked about this issue and, instead of leaving for peteneras, as many would have stated its position and that of his party who are, or should be-in the public domain:

" The Bureau of the Congress of Deputies
Under the provisions of Article 124 and following the Rules of the House, the Joint show, at the request of Rep. Joan Saura Laporta, the Iniciativa per Catalunya-Verds the following proposition of law to amend the Organic Act 1 / 1992 of 21 February on the protection of public safety in connection with drug possession for personal consumption. "

OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE COURTS GENERAL

is not the first time a member of ICV is in favor of common sense drug policy, although this proposal has had much more impact than previous . One would expect a bit more consistency of prohibitionist right that only for what is suitable and that once someone is outside the accepted discourse for thinking only about drugs, the citation makes good Macbeth "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing."

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NIDA and Wikipedia: caught red handed

Mal has left the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA, in English) their attempt to alter the entry on Wikipedia. In late August 2006, someone with an IP that led to this body drug-dependent U.S. National Institutes of Health-edited radically different parts of its entry into the online encyclopedia. This act was considered "vandalism" by the heads of Wikipedia entry and returned to its previous state. On 18 September, NIDA thug returned, but this was making the changes gradually to avoid detection. The parties concerned were "research question" (all about the fraud of Dr. Ricaurte and MDMA), the section on the infamous marijuana as provided by NIDA researchers and all external links, replaced by government propaganda . NIDA spokeswoman confirmed the agency responsible for these changes, arguing that the entry had been changed "for the sake of science."

to no avail the pathetic excuses of NIDA, and during the following months brought a fierce battle between the not-so-anonymous thug hired by the government and the editors of Wikipedia, as one would expect, ended with the Victor of the latter. Tip, the entry of this organism as a manipulation which respect for scientific knowledge that says incarnate, now contains a section entitled NIDA and Wikipedia reflects this disgraceful incident.


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