Items tagged with denmark
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| After 50 years, a Danish commune is shaken from Its utopian dream [05.12.2023] | Founded in 1971 by squatters on an abandoned military base, Christiania was devised as a post-’60s anarchistic utopia, where people could live outsid ... |
| Christiania plan could push drug crime into other parts of Copenhagen: MP [07.09.2023] | A government plan to shut down the Christiania ‘Pusher Street’ cannabis market and double drug penalties in the zone risks pushing crime into other p ... |
| Christiania hash sellers could get prison as ‘permanent closure’ announced for Pusher Street market [06.09.2023] | The new law will target a specially designated zone in which fines for possession will be doubled even for a first offence. Any subsequent offence wi ... |
| Copenhagen mayor urges foreigners to stop buying marijuana at city’s drug oasis following shooting [04.09.2023] | Copenhagen’s mayor urged foreigners not to buy weed in the city’s Christiania neighborhood where a 30-year-old man was shot and killed and four other ... |
| Christiania wants Pusher Street closed for good after gang shooting [28.08.2023] | After a fatal shooting in Christiania that left one dead and four injured, residents want hash sales on Pusher Street stopped. “This is a big step an ... |
| State and city reach agreement to close down Pusher Street [27.06.2023] | Pusher Street is no ordinary thoroughfare. For decades, it has housed numerous stalls selling cannabis to the public in open view. During that time, ... |
| Move over, CBD: HHC is the new ‘legal cannabis’ these European countries want to ban [25.05.2023] | It may be the next big thing after the cannabidiol (CBD) wave and its controversies: HHC, also known as “synthetic cannabis”. HHC sellers tout the eu ... |
| Gang violence could end open cannabis trade in anarchist commune Christiania [09.05.2023] | The 40-year history of the open cannabis trade on “Pusher Street” in the heart of the Christiania neighbourhood of Copenhagen could be over as the ci ... |
| Mayor looking to shut down Pusher Street permanently [04.05.2023] | Mayor Sophie Hæstorp Andersen is indicating that she wants to completely shut down Pusher Street due to the violence associated with the illegal cann ... |
| Politicians in Copenhagen voted yes to the cannabis pilot project [04.06.2022] | A majority in the Citizens' Representation in Copenhagen voted yes to a proposal for a cannabis pilot project. The politicians voted for the municipa ... |
| Politicians across parties propose 5-year cannabis pilot in Denmark [15.03.2022] | Danish officials across five political parties have proposed a plan for an adult-use cannabis pilot similar to a program proposed in its capital city ... |
| Socialdemokratiet mayoral candidate to legalise cannabis sales [13.08.2021] | Socialdemokratiet’s leading mayoral candidate for Copenhagen, Sophie Hæstorp Andersen, has big plans concerning the decriminalisation of cannabis. Sh ... |
| Christiania residence ban an abuse of power, contends Danish Institute for Human Rights [31.03.2021] | Christoffer Badse, the head of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, has accused the government of abusing its power with the continuance of its res ... |
| How a man with a van is challenging UK drug policy [21.11.2020] | Every Friday for the past two months, Peter Krykant has parked his white van on Parnie Street in central Glasgow and waited for people to come by and ... |
| Crackdown on laughing gas cartridges and the Danish teenagers who abuse them [21.01.2020] | The Danish government will present a bill to make it much harder for young people to abuse laughing gas cartridges to get high. The bill, which has a ... |
| Danish parties want to decriminalise hard drugs [14.01.2020] | A new report in Denmark revealed that more young Danes are consuming cocaine. Now several Danish parties want to change the law on the drugs to allow ... |
| Foreign assets could be next on the block for cash-hungry cannabis companies [10.01.2020] | Two years ago, Canadian cannabis companies were racing to scoop up international assets, from swaths of fertile land in southern Africa to cultivatio ... |
| No joke: Dutch to ban the sale of laughing gas for recreational use [09.12.2019] | The Dutch government is planning to ban the sale of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, for recreational use. The decision follows several warnings about ... |
| Inside the Walmart of weed [23.11.2019] | With Canada the largest nation to completely legalize marijuana, the world’s most valuable pot company, Canopy Growth Corp., founded in 2013 and now ... |
| Copenhagen city council supports cannabis legalization trial [12.09.2019] | City politicians in Copenhagen are in support of trialling a legalization of the sale of cannabis and will approach the government over the issue. “T ... |
| Drug laws on possession: several countries are revisiting them and these are their options [02.08.2019] | Many countries are changing the way they approach people who use drugs. The Irish government has just announced possible alternatives to criminalisat ... |
| Cannabis regulation and local authorities in Europe [31.03.2019] | Local and regional authorities across Europe are confronted with the negative consequences of a persisting illicit cannabis market. Increasingly, loc ... |
| Cannabis in the City [01.03.2019] | Lately, there have been clear signs of a shift in governments’ approaches to recreational cannabis. Uruguay in 2013 and Canada in 2018 – as well as a ... |
| A run on medicinal cannabis causes concern amongst doctors [29.01.2019] | A year ago, and in the teeth of opposition from some doctors, the Danish health authorities decided to approve a four-year pilot project under which ... |
| Danish law enforcement increasing pressure on Christiania cannabis trade [23.01.2019] | Illicit trade of cannabis at the Pusher Street market in Copenhagen’s Christiania is being put under pressure by an intensive effort from law enforce ... |
| How 'fixing rooms' are saving the lives of drug addicts [21.11.2018] | All over Europe, every day, many thousands of people will inject heroin in drug consumption rooms. But none of these will be in the UK, where drug ad ... |
| Money launderers are taking EU to the cleaners, experts say [30.09.2018] | European Union nations may boast the world's most stringent anti-money laundering rules, but recent scandals show that criminals are good at exploiti ... |
| Study to investigate self-medicating cannabis users [19.09.2018] | A new Danish study aims to shine a light on the patterns of medicinal cannabis consumption among users who chose to go outide the official channels. ... |
| Sweden's zero-tolerance drug policy should be reviewed: narcotics officer [14.06.2018] | Sweden's current policy is based on the goal of a "drug-free society" and makes no distinction between "hard" and "soft" drugs. Those found guilty of ... |
| 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, ... |
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