Items tagged with denmark
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| Five Danish political parties support legalisation of cannabis [11.06.2018] | A string of parties on both sides of the political aisle have declared their support for decriminalising the sale of cannabis. Police are wasting the... |
| Danish police in new Christiania clampdown as hash market pulled down [28.05.2018] | Police in Copenhagen tore down cannabis stands in the Pusher Street market area in Christiania for the third consecutive day. But sellers in the alte... |
| Denmark’s Christiania closes off 'Pusher Street' cannabis market [22.05.2018] | Residents in Denmark’s alternative enclave Christiania fenced off an area known as Pusher Street, from where cannabis is usually sold. All entrances ... |
| Danish MP calls for decriminalisation of both cannabis and hard drugs [17.05.2018] | Henrik Sass Larsen minces no words in his new book ‘Exodus: The Way to the Centre-Left’ in which he offers up his opinion on the Danish government’s ... |
| Is Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drugs a failing model? [17.05.2018] | Sweden is accustomed to being praised for its forward-thinking approach, but there's one area where many feel it lies behind the curve. The country's... |
| Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world [24.04.2018] | Although cannabis remains a prohibited substance worldwide, in recent decades a series of political, legislative and judicial processes in various pa... |
| Denmark’s high hopes to become Europe’s biggest medical cannabis producer [22.02.2018] | Denmark will soon become one of the largest medical cannabis producers in Europe. Since December 2017, the Laegemiddelstyrelsen medicines agency has ... |
| Canadian weed companies are staking their claim in Europe [30.01.2018] | Some of Canada’s biggest cannabis companies are expanding their presence in Europe through a series of strategic acquisitions, designed to secure a f... |
| Danish police arrest 13 in tense Christiania raid [24.01.2018] | Police seized a large amount of narcotics and items in a raid in the alternative enclave of Christiania in Copenhagen.Ten kilograms of hash and vario... |
| Canadian cannabis firm licensed to produce in Denmark [19.12.2017] | Canadian medical marijuana producer Canopy Growth said its joint venture Spectrum Cannabis has been licensed to grow pot in Denmark for sale througho... |
| Danish police use drone in operation against Christiania cannabis trade [30.11.2017] | A special unit of the Copenhagen police force has been operating in and around the ‘free city’ of Christiania and on its notorious Pusher Street in a... |
| “Despite the rise of gang crime, youth crime has been falling” [18.09.2017] | As Justice Minister between 1996 and 2001, Frank Jensen opposed legalising cannabis. But after becoming Lord Mayor of Copenhagen in 2010, he changed ... |
| End the gang war by setting cannabis free [14.09.2017] | Until the early 2000s, Copenhagen’s cannabis trade was centred in Christiania, an autonomous enclave of the city featuring around two dozen stalls wh... |
| Copenhagen’s drug injection rooms a success story, mayor says [14.06.2017] | The lives of drug addicts who overdose can often be saved, provided they are using a drug injection room, figures show. Since two fixerums were opene... |
| Cannabis legislation in Europe [15.03.2017] | At a time of increased debate on the laws controlling the use of cannabis in the European Union, this report answers some of the questions most often... |
| Four of five Danes support legalising medical cannabis [27.02.2017] | More than 80 percent of Danes are in favour of legalising the medical use of cannabis, a new survey has found, increasing the chance that a pilot sch... |
| Why addicts take drugs in 'fix rooms' [09.01.2017] | Britain could soon see its first "fix room" for drug users - a safe space where addicts can take illegal narcotics under medical supervision. But who... |
| Copenhagen to once again push for legal cannabis trial [15.12.2016] | After three spurned attempts to get a trial programme for legal cannabis off the ground, city officials in Copenhagen will try once again. Led by May... |
| Denmark approves medical cannabis trial [07.11.2016] | The Danish government announced that as of 2018, doctors will be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis to certain patients. The government said that a... |
| Pusher Street: Christiania’s problem child [07.11.2016] | Christiania’s Pusher Street has been through a rough summer. During June and July police carried out a series of raids, removing booths and arresting... |
| Police say Christiania cannabis trade decimated [30.10.2016] | Police Director Thorkild Fogde told Politiken newspaper that although hash and marijuana are still being openly sold in Christiania’s Pusher Street, ... |
| Dane faces 10 years for selling cannabis to cancer patients [04.10.2016] | A Danish activist who openly provides cannabis to cancer patients and other Danes with serious medical ailments was arrested and faces up to ten year... |
| Paradise lost: does Copenhagen’s Christiania commune still have a future? [22.09.2016] | In recent years the cannabis in Christiania trade has evolved. Once led by small-time dealers, it is now controlled by large, multinational organisat... |
| Cannabis trade moving into other Copenhagen neighbourhoods [06.09.2016] | Since residents of the freetown Christiania took matters into their own hands and ripped down the cannabis stands on Pusher Street, it appears that d... |
| “Buy your hash somewhere else” [04.09.2016] | Christiania has transformed from an alternative ‘hippie’ commune to a hub for hardened criminals. The Pusher Street was covered with military netting... |
| Christiania residents shut down Pusher Street [01.09.2016] | After a meeting that stretched across several hours, residents of the largely self-governing commune of Christiania said they would try to shut down ... |
| Denmark takes small step towards medicinal cannabis [23.08.2016] | The Region of Southern Denmark agreed to move forward on a plan that could see the region become the first in the nation to prescribe cannabis for me... |
| Scandinavia’s largest drug injection room opens in Copenhagen [13.08.2016] | H17, a new drug consumption room (fixerum), officially opens in Copenhagen. H17 was designed and decorated to specially suit the needs of drug users,... |
| Danes want legal cannabis, but govt vows crackdown [27.06.2016] | Amidst a new debate on cannabis, spurred by a massive police action at Christiania, a majority of Danes are in favour of legalization. Berlingske new... |
| Christiania raid spurs new debate on legal cannabis [21.06.2016] | After a massive police raid on the open-air cannabis market Pusher Street, a number of prominent figures in law enforcement have called on Denmark to... |
| Copenhagen police tear down Christiania cannabis market [17.06.2016] | Copenhagen Police on Friday carried out a large-scale operation in Christiania, clearing the alternative enclave's open-air cannabis market. Using sa... |
| Violent Christiania police action caught on video [28.04.2016] | Two videos posted online by the Christiania-based documentary group Cadok show large-scale police action targeting the Copenhagen district’s cannabis... |
| Danish gov snubs call to clear Pusher Street [22.03.2016] | Denmark's governing party has refused calls to crack down on Pusher Street, the open cannabis market that has long operated in Christiania, Copenhage... |
| Record number of raids on Swedish drug farms [21.07.2015] | Swedes are growing more and more cannabis. Never before have so many illegal drug farms been reported to the police, according to Swedish media. In 2... |
| Drug injection rooms a resounding success [26.05.2015] | The drug injection rooms ('fixerum') that opened for customers some two and a half years ago in Denmark have been hailed as a resounding success. Out... |
| Cannabis policy reform in Europe [27.12.2014] | While in the Americas cannabis policy reform is taking off, Europe seems to be lagging behind. That is to say, in European nations at the level of na... |
| Reform der Cannabispolitik in Europa [27.12.2014] | Während die Reform der Cannabispolitik in Amerika Fahrt aufnimmt, scheint Europa hinterherzuhinken. Genauer gesagt, die europäischen Staaten auf nati... |
| Is prohibition worth the cost? [06.11.2014] | In Denmark there is little movement on drug policy. We know that we are just months from the next general election, but no political party has a poli... |
| Denmark funds medicinal cannabis research [30.10.2014] | A political agreement between all of the political parties in parliament for funding research into the medicinal effects of cannabis is seen as a sig... |
| Denmark to look at decriminalising drugs [27.07.2014] | The World Health Organization’s (WHO) call for the decriminalisation of drugs will be taken up by Danish politicians in the autumn. In the WHO report... |
| 'Denmark will definitely legalize weed' [06.07.2014] | Copenhagen city officials have tried three times to legalize cannabis within the city. All three times, the answer from the national government has b... |
| Why the mayor of Copenhagen wants to get into the marijuana business [02.03.2014] | The city of Copenhagen should be growing its own weed, said its mayor. According to Social Democrat Frank Jensen, the Danish capital can only get a g... |
| Courage, common sense and cannabis [10.01.2014] | Despite 40 years of prohibition, Danes smoke cannabis. If prohibition continues another 40 years, Danes will still smoke it. So too will residents in... |
| Drug-related deaths down [24.11.2013] | "It is encouraging that we have been able to achieve a drop in numbers in an area where Denmark’s figures are otherwise too high," says Health Minist... |
| Let the gangs wither and the state turn a profit [04.11.2013] | As a law enforcement professional, I was waiting impatiently for the government’s recommendations for fighting gang crime. I’ve been especially impat... |
| Drug rooms: Admirers eye Copenhagen model [29.10.2013] | As a senior police official in northern England calls for safe rooms for the injection of hard drugs, attention has focused on similar projects aroun... |
| Police targeting cannabis users [24.09.2013] | Police in Copenhagen have cannabis users in their crosshairs as they struggle to close the illegal drug trade in Copenhagen commune Christiania. Task... |
| Online activists take on police in Christiania [01.08.2013] | In response to the increased police presence in and around Christiania, a number of citizens are fighting back online. Fans of Christiania have long ... |
| Copenhageners cautiously support legal cannabis, but provinces unconvinced [05.05.2013] | Copenhagen's mayor, Frank Jensen, has asked for a three-year trial of legal marijuana in Copenhagen and he has a majority of City Hall on his side. A... |
| Inside Denmark's 'fixing rooms', where nurses watch as addicts inject in safety [04.05.2013] | Since the launch of the room, the quantity of drug paraphernalia collected from gutters, playgrounds, stairwells and doorways in the area has halved.... |
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