Report of activities

THE ENCOD BULLETINS IN 2005

January: A DRUG WAR BATTLE WE HAVE WON

February: THE NEW EU DRUG STRATEGY

March:DRUG PROHIBITION IN DEFENCE MODE

April: EUROPE AT CROSSROADS

May: THE SNOW BALL IS ROLLING

June: THE ESCAPE FROM REALITY

July: FROM HARM REDUCTION TO BENEFIT PROMOTION

August: BUILDING THE CRITICAL MASS

September: FREEDOM TO FARM (for Mo Mowlam)

October: CLIMATE CHANGE

November: RISK MANAGEMENT

December: ZERO POINT ONE TOLERANCE

Early February 2005, it appeared that the UNODC Executive Director, Antonio Maria Costa, had given in to US pressure to eliminate the concept of harm reduction in its documents. ENCOD sent out a statement and participated in the Annual Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna. Read the report of the ENCOD delegation

21-23 March 2005 Participation in the WILTON PARK Conference on Drug Abuse - How can it be reduced

Read the report of the ENCOD delegate.

21-24 March 2005 Participation in the INTERNATIONAL HARM REDUCTION ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, Belfast.

Read the report of the ENCOD delegate.

7 May 2005: Participation in the Million Marijuana March

10 June 2005 ENCOD Speech at Legalize, Amsterdam.

23-25 JUNE 2005 ENCOD GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BERLIN

Read the Minutes

During summertime, two key activists in the global movement for the liberation of cannabis were persecuted by authorities: Marc Emery in Canada and Andre Fürst in Switzerland. ENCOD called for actions.

Later, Member of European Parliament Giusto Catania asked a question on Marc Emery to the European Commission, and a group of Czech activists started an open letter campaign to the Swiss President on the case of Andre Fürst.

In the end of July, a violent police action made an end to a peaceful dance event in the Czech republic. ENCOD sent out a press release.

From 7 to 9 September, ENCOD participated in the first global conference of REFORMA, our Latinamerican sister organisation, in Buenos Aires.

Read the report of the ENCOD delegate.

On 13 October, ENCOD was invited to intervene in the Ethical Platform meeting of the Pompidou Group, Council of Europe, Strassbourg.

Early November, an ENCOD delegation was invited to attend the Bi-Annual Conference of the Drug Policy Alliance in Long Beach, USA. For our chairman, Farid Ghehioueche, the trip ended before it had even started. Read his report on a one day adventure.

In December, we were asked by a Brazilian judge to support an open letter campaign to ask the liberation of a 79-year old cancer patient imprisoned for drug trafficking. The campaign was successfull: the woman was released from prison two weeks after.

Do you want to participate or get more information on this campaign? Please contact the ENCOD secretariat.