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Current AffairsMillion Marihuana March 2007 takes over Letna
About fifteen hundred mostly young people took part in the annual Million
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marihuana legalization in the Czech Republic. After crossing the Vltava
River and arriving at Letna Plain, the crowd grew in numbers and enjoyed
an afternoon of live music, dancing, beer, and, naturally, some illicit
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Current AffairsCzechs rank first among Europe's consumers of cannabis
A new annual report released by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs
and Drug Addiction, the EMCDDA, includes some shocking statistics. In the
Czech Republic, 22 percent of people between 15 and 34 have tried
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Talking PointCannabis - now a normal part of life in the Czech Republic
A recently released Europe-wide survey found that young people in the Czech
Republic are the leading smokers of cannabis in the whole of the European
Union. Before the fall of the Iron Curtain drugs were largely unheard of
in Czech society, and were very much an underground phenomenon. Today,
however, marijuana in particular seems to have become accepted as a normal
part of life in the Czech Republic.
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Talking PointThe Czech Republic's policy on drug use - Is it working?
Drugs were practically unheard of in this part of the world during the
communist era. A closed border and a tightly controlled society meant that
there was little room for people to indulge in perceived vices such as
drugs. All that has changed, however, since the Velvet Revolution and the
Czech Republic now has tens of thousands of registered drug addicts. One
of the country's biggest challenges in this area has been to formulate a
response to a growing drug problem. This has been especially difficult
considering that the government has had to formulate a consistent policy
on drugs from complete scratch. In this week's Talking Point, we look at
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