Subj: Drugs and the UN

Date: Jun 5, 1998

Source: Orange County Register

DRUGS AND THE UN

The United Nations begins a special session on drug policy June 8.
The original plan was to take a fresh look at drug policy with a
variety of viewpoints represented,but the session is now operating
under guidelines permitting only viewpoints in favor of prohibitionist
policies.

A broad-based coalition of political and community groups will be
protesting this narrowness and the threat to national sovereignty
posed by U.N.proposals at rallies and conferences all over the
world - Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Auckland, Dallas, Houston, Madrid, New
York, Tel Aviv - between June 5 and June 10.

In Orange County,a coalition of groups will protest tomorrow, June
6,at noon at the Orange County Federal Building in Santa Ana.

The local manifestation of the Global Days Against the Drug War will
feature exhibits,booths,speakers from the Green and Libertarian
parties, Prop.215 patients an a focus on the family members of victims
of the drug war. For more information,you can call (714)301-9798