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| A win-win on drugs? Fighting gangs by legalizing pot | Copenhagen just got a lot closer to legalizing the sale of pot. If approved by the Danish parliament, next year the city could grant licenses to indi... |
| Chewing over Khat prohibition | In the context of a fast changing and well documented market in legal highs, the case of khat (Catha edulis) provides an interesting anomaly. It is fi... |
| City trying to ‘hash out’ pot issue | A new Social Affairs Committee report on cannabis has recommended that the City Council seriously consider decriminalisation of the substance’s as bei... |
| Copenhagen votes to legalise marijuana | Marijuana could soon be legalised in Copenhagen, after the city voted overwhelmingly in favour of a scheme that would see the drug sold through a ne... |
| Copenhagen wants controlled cannabis shops | The Copenhagen City Council is pushing ahead with a proposal to decriminalise cannabis, and has set up a committee to investigate the best way to regu... |
| Could legalising pot clean up the rot? | The City Council of Copenhagen has been pushing to legalise the sale of marijuana in the city. The council’s vote which would pave the way to establ... |
| Council may enter drug trade | A City Council majority is backing a plan to legalise the sale of cannabis, which could see two thirds of the market taken away from criminal gangs.... |
| Ex-resident and police say Christiania’s future threatened by violence | In response to an opinion piece in Politiken newspaper, in which a former Christiania resident encourages residents of the commune to stand up to th... |
| Injection room finally finds a home | Some obstacles remain before the injection room, which may cost as much as 18 million kroner to set up, can become a reality - including an expected... |
| Injection room operator: Political indecision will cost lives | The government’s indecision over plans to set up a permanent injection room for drug addicts may cost the lives of over 100 users, according to Mich... |
| Injection rooms approved, but advocates wonder what’s next | The thirty-five year fight to establish permanent injection rooms for drug addicts is now over after the government announced last week that such faci... |
| Jury still out on government’s hash crackdown | It was exactly six years ago this week that police conducted their first full-scale raid on Pusher Street, the famed road in the city’s Christiania ... |
| Legal cannabis rejected by government | State-run hash and marijuana dispensaries won't be popping up in Copenhagen any time soon after the Justice Ministry this weekend turned down Cop... |
| Legal marijuana gets one step closer | A committee has now been established to determine the best way to legalise the sale of hashish, with special stores owned by the council presenting i... |
| Legalise it, part two | Legalising pot, we wrote in this space back in July 2009, would have two obvious benefits: generating revenue and dragging a shady business out into t... |
| Legalised cannabis? | A political majority at Copenhagen Town Hall is pushing for cannabis to be decriminalised. In a joint letter, four out of five local politicians have ... |
| Mobile injection room rolls out | Two out-of-service ambulances have been put back into service as mobile injection rooms for drug addicts in Copenhagen (Denmark). The vehicles will b... |
| MP: Approval for city ‘coffee shop’ plan unlikely | The Copenhagen City Council’s plan to set up shops selling cannabis as a way to remove the market from the control of gangs is not likely to be embr... |
| Opinion | Injection rooms save lives | On Monday September 12 Denmark’s first mobile injection room made its maiden voyage, driving from Victoriagade to Reventlowsgade behind Central Stat... |
| Opinion | Is it okay if we sell joints? | The City Council will soon be sending a letter to the justice minister, Morten Bødskov (Socialdemokraterne). It might be formulated a little more fo... |
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The first edition of the IDPC Drug Policy Guide is aimed at national government policy makers.
In 2011 the 1961 UN Single Convention on drugs will be in place for 50 years. In 2012 the international drug control system will exist 100 years since the International Opium Convention was signed in 1912 in The Hague. Does it still serve its purpose or is a reform of the UN Drug Conventions needed? This site provides critical background.
