The Copenhagen Post - May 18-24

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18 - 24 May 2012 | Vol 15 Issue 20

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NEWS

A former minister’s comparison raises eyebrows and reveals “frightening homophobia”

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OPINION

Are Danes impolite? That depends on who you ask, of course, but columnist Frank Theakston has some thoughts

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Part two of our photo essay on the lives of junkies in Aarhus takes us inside a popular community centre

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Government rejects proposal to legalise cannabis

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PETER STANNERS City Council members criticise the decision, arguing that legalisation is the only solution to the crime created by the booming and illicit trade of cannabis

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TATE-RUN marijuana dispensaries won’t be popping up in Copenhagen any time soon after the Justice Ministry this weekend turned down the City Council’s request to experiment with legalising cannabis in the city. In a letter to the council, the justice minister, Morten Bødskov (Social-

demokraterne), wrote that the govern“It’s very disappointing,” Warmment could not permit the experiment ing told public broadcaster DR. “The as they believed that legalising marijuana prohibitive policies we have operated would probably increase both availabil- under in Denmark for so many years ity and use, which was unwise given the have not worked. You can still buy canrange of side effects that cannabis has nabis on street corners across the city, been linked to. which also means the cannabis is mixed “Because of this, the government up with other harder drugs. Criminals will not permit the experiment,” Bød- also pocket about two billion kroner a skov wrote. year from the trade.” The rejection was met with disapWarming added that he would pointment from members of the City continue to work toward the legalisaCouncil, including the deputy mayor tion of marijuana, pointing out that it for social affairs, Mikkel Warming (En- took ten years to convince parliament hedslisten), who argued that legalisa- of the need for an injection room for tion was the only solution Organise to the crime a users of hard drugs. personal meeting caused by the illicit drug trade. City Council member, Lars Aslan and sit in on aAclass.

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Rasmussen (Socialdemokraterne), also criticised the government’s decision, arguing that the criminalistion of marijuana was the root cause of the high level of gun crime in the city. “[Legalisation] would limit the gang conflict and it would also give us access to the group of users who have been left to the criminal environment,” Rasmussen told Ritzau. “We had hoped that they would take our proposal seriously, as we have the support of 80 percent of the City Council. Copenhagen has a serious problem because the gang conflict is a result of the trade in marijuana. The gangs turn over more money than 7-Eleven.”

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