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French
Artists,
Intellectuals
Sign
Petition
Challenging
Drug
Laws
3/6/98
Last Thursday, Feb. 26, a group of over 100 French artists and intellectuals
presented a petition declaring that "At one moment or other in my
life, I have consumed stupefying drugs. I know that in admitting publicly
that I am a drug user, I can be prosecuted. This is a risk I am ready to
take." In France, the very act of admitting the use of drugs is prosecutable
as an incitement to others.
According to the Independent on Sunday, the signatories hope to draw
attention to the "hypocrisies and inconsistencies of government policy
and the application of the French anti-drugs law." France's new Socialist
government is already beginning the process of public debate in an effort
to raise awareness among the population of the need to reform France's
historically harsh drug laws.
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Issue #32, 3/6/98
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