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Copenhageners cautiously support legal cannabis, but provinces unconvinced [06-05-13] 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 sid...
Inside Denmark's 'fixing rooms', where nurses watch as addicts inject in safety [05-05-13] 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 [20-04-13] After the 90-minute parade through Copenhagen, the deputy mayor for social affairs, Mikkel Warming, spoke to the crowd about the city's efforts t...
Denmark ends Iranian drug crime support [09-04-13] The Danish development minister, Christian Friis Bach (Radikale), has decided to cease providing financial support to a United Nations anti-drug progr...
Injection room saves 30 lives [04-04-13] Staff at Copenhagen’s first legal drug injection room have saved 30 lives since it opened last autumn, according to metroXpress newspaper.The deputy m...
Legal pot: worth a try [21-03-13] 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 w...
Life after cannabis prohibition: The city announces its ambitions [15-03-13] 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 [14-03-13] 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 prop...
Copenhagen looking to import cannabis from the US [12-03-13] Ahead of a City Council cannabis conference on Friday, Copenhagen officials say they are ready to make another push to legalise the substance. Accordi...
Mayors reject legal cannabis proposal [04-03-13] In Copenhagen, a majority of City Council dreams of legally selling cannabis from pharmacies throughout the city to residents who are over 18 and have...
More Danes grow their own cannabis [25-02-13] 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 at...
Christiania task force netting arrests but locals call it harassment [11-02-13] 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 St...
Up in smoke: Notorious ‘coffee shop’ closes its doors [15-01-13] Smokenhagen, modelled on a Dutch-style ‘coffee shop’ that permits cannabis smoking, closed down voluntarily after pressure from the housing associatio...
City Council planning more injection rooms [10-01-13] 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 mor...
End of the road for the fix on wheels [27-11-12] Mobile injection rooms have been operated for the past year out of two former ambulances. Run by the private organisation Foreningen Fixerum and staff...
Jensen rejects Swedish fear of free cannabis [22-11-12] 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 [22-11-12] 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 relax...
Prevalence of daily cannabis use in the European Union and Norway [15-11-12] This report brings together, for the first time in Europe, an integrated overview of the prevalence of intensive cannabis use, defined as daily or a...
Experts: Zero-tolerance on ‘cannabis driving’ too severe [05-11-12] 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 [06-10-12] While Copenhagen managed to convince the government to let them open a legal injection room to improve the living conditions of drug addicts, they h...
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