Items tagged with denmark
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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. ... |
Cannabis supporters take to the streets [19.04.2013] | After a parade through Copenhagen, the deputy mayor for social affairs, Mikkel Warming, spoke to the crowd about the city's efforts to legalise canna ... |
Denmark ends Iranian drug crime support [09.04.2013] | The Danish development minister, Christian Friis Bach (Radikale), has decided to cease providing financial support to a United Nations anti-drug prog ... |
Injection room saves 30 lives [03.04.2013] | Staff at Copenhagen’s first legal drug injection room have saved 30 lives since it opened last autumn, according to metroXpress newspaper.The deputy ... |
Legal pot: worth a try [21.03.2013] | In a country that regulates the sale of over-the-counter painkillers, you’d have thought that a reasonable way to decriminalise the sale of cannabis ... |
The next marijuana legalization fight? Copenhagen vs. the rest of Denmark [19.03.2013] | The city of Copenhagen wants to legalize cannabis and, if possible, get supplies of the drug from the United States. Following a Europe-wide trend, D ... |
Life after cannabis prohibition: The city announces its ambitions [15.03.2013] | The tide is turning against the criminalisation of cannabis. Copenhagen wants to join the movement with a three-year trial to decriminalise the drug. ... |
Seattle downplays likelihood of sending pot to Copenhagen [14.03.2013] | A Seattle city official has poured cold water on Co enhagen's idea of importing cannabis from the US. One of the elements of the city's proposal to l ... |
Copenhagen looking to import cannabis from the US [12.03.2013] | Ahead of a City Council cannabis conference on Friday, Copenhagen officials say they are ready to make another push to legalise the substance. Accord ... |
Mayors reject legal cannabis proposal [04.03.2013] | In Copenhagen, a majority of City Council dreams of legally selling cannabis from pharmacies throughout the city to residents who are over 18 and hav ... |
More Danes grow their own cannabis [25.02.2013] | A large number of Danes are growing their own cannabis plants at home, according to a new investigation by drug researcher Helle Dahl, a researcher a ... |
Christiania task force netting arrests but locals call it harassment [11.02.2013] | Copenhagen Police said that the number of people being charged with possession of cannabis is up 23 percent since the creation of Task Force Pusher S ... |
Up in smoke: Notorious ‘coffee shop’ closes its doors [15.01.2013] | Smokenhagen, modelled on a Dutch-style 'coffee shop' that permits cannabis smoking, closed down voluntarily after pressure from the housing associati ... |
City Council planning more injection rooms [09.01.2013] | The injection room for drug users that opened in Vesterbro last October has been such a success that the City Council is considering opening three mo ... |
End of the road for the fix on wheels [26.11.2012] | Mobile injection rooms have been operated for the past year out of two former ambulances. Run by the private organisation Foreningen Fixerum and staf ... |
Jensen rejects Swedish fear of free cannabis [22.11.2012] | Copenhagen mayor Frank Jensen rejects the Swedish concern about regulation of cannabis in Copenhagen. He emphasizes that the aim of the experiment is ... |
Sweden urges city not to legalise cannabis [22.11.2012] | In a letter to the mayor, elected officials from 19 local councils in southern Sweden told Jensen they “were against all measures that involve a rela ... |
Prevalence of daily cannabis use in the European Union and Norway [14.11.2012] | This report brings together, for the first time in Europe, an integrated overview of the prevalence of intensive cannabis use, defined as daily or al ... |
Experts: Zero-tolerance on ‘cannabis driving’ too severe [04.11.2012] | Experts are questioning the severity of a zero-tolerance policy towards those caught driving with detectable levels of illegal drugs in their bodies, ... |
Copenhagen mayor Frank Jensen on cannabis experiment [05.10.2012] | While Copenhagen managed to convince the government to let them open a legal injection room to improve the living conditions of drug addicts, they ha ... |
Overdose kits to be distributed to drug users [04.10.2012] | From the beginning of next year, the government will launch a new initiative in the struggle against drug-related deaths. In collaboration with far-l ... |
Mayor and police at odds over cannabis approach [10.09.2012] | While Copenhagen's mayor, Frank Jensen, continues to be a vocal advocate for legalising cannabis in the city, arguing that a "paradigm shift" is in o ... |
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