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Danish hippy enclave Christiania wants drugs street shut after deadly shooting 1
#28450200 - 08/28/23 05:04 PM (4 months, 28 days ago) |
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This place has been around forever, I loved unregulated, but tolerated, cannabis scenes. Viral
COPENHAGEN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Residents in the Freetown Christiania hippy enclave in Denmark's capital Copenhagen say they want to shut down cannabis sales on its main street following a deadly shooting on Saturday.
Christiana, a former army barracks that was claimed by hippies during the 1970s, has openly sold cannabis on its main street, known as Pusher Street, for more than 50 years.
The illegal drug trade has been tolerated by authorities, even as an increase in gang-related activities in the area has resulted in multiple shootings in recent years.
Police remove the cannabis booths from time to time only to see them rebuilt shortly after.
"As long as there is a massive illegal cannabis trade, there will be a violent and deadly struggle for the market," residents said in a joint statement posted on Christiania's website on Sunday.
A 30-year-old man was shot and killed on Saturday when two masked gunmen opened fire on Pusher Street. Four other people were wounded. The shooting was related to the illegal cannabis trade, police said.
An 18-year-old was arrested on Saturday and is being held custody. Police are still looking for other perpetrators.
The mayor of Copenhagen, Sophie Haestorp Andersen, on Sunday told the newspaper Berlingske that she also wants Pusher Street closed permanently.
Three weeks ago, Christiania residents tried to block the entrance in an effort to stop the illegal activity on Pusher Street, but the blockade only lasted a couple of hours.
Residents of the enclave live autonomously with self-declared rules, although they are not recognised as their own town by Copenhagen authorities. It is a major tourist attraction, with more than half million visitors a year.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/danish-hippy-enclave-christiania-wants-drugs-street-shut-after-deadly-shooting-2023-08-28/
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Re: Danish hippy enclave Christiania wants drugs street shut after deadly shooting [Re: viraldrome] 2
#28451980 - 08/30/23 04:07 AM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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I bought my first Cubes there more than 20 years ago. Back then it was such a cool place. Like a vegetable market, just with all kind of weed and hash to buy on display... and shrooms of course.
It's a pity what that place turned out to be.
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Re: Danish hippy enclave Christiania wants drugs street shut after deadly shooting [Re: Fridgedoor] 1
#28454927 - 09/01/23 01:12 PM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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Fridgedoor said: I bought my first Cubes there more than 20 years ago. Back then it was such a cool place. Like a vegetable market, just with all kind of weed and hash to buy on display... and shrooms of course.
It's a pity what that place turned out to be.
Sounds like a cool experience, at least you got to be there when it was like that.
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Re: Danish hippy enclave Christiania wants drugs street shut after deadly shooting [Re: Dave Bowman] 4
#28488366 - 10/01/23 02:06 AM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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20 years ago I had the same experience couple of times with my friends, going on a day trip to Denmark. Walking east from central Copenhagen over some bridges and finally entering the gate with "no photography" sign to pusher street. Almost directly this market with like 20 tables or market stands filled with chunks of hash, jars of weed, pre rolled joints of different strains, and mushrooms. So me and my friends was like kids in a candy store buying different hash from around the world, nice weed and also my first Psilocybe cubensis dose. I remembering sitting on the grassy hills towards the water, trying some of their really nice products and all was good. Christiania was an interesting place with loose dogs people passing with horses and all interesting friendly people with hippie/artist/expressive looks (like colorful tattoos all over the face). It was like entering a psychedelic circus.
Police could show up so they had people watching out and surveillance camera at the gates and could in a few seconds bag the stash and run away. 
Then for a while police raids got more common and serious, bikers controling the cannabis market was replaced with immigrant gangs and the cozy feeling turned more dark... For a while it looked like Copenhagen was going to legalize weed and things would improve, but politicians turned repressive again and the crime and violence could grow and prosper.
The inhabitants of Christiana are tired of this and they are right to kick the violent gangs out. I however think them showing this desperation will end with the city finally taking full control and demolishing Christiana to build new houses and tearing away their "independence" bit by bit.
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Re: Danish hippy enclave Christiania wants drugs street shut after deadly shooting [Re: knarkkorven]
#28490808 - 10/03/23 09:43 AM (3 months, 23 days ago) |
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We have breakaways, in the US, but they fail for the lack of common, social services by which we define a civilization.
One of which was the physical security of it's residents.
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Reuters said: Three weeks ago, Christiania residents tried to block the entrance in an effort to stop the illegal activity on Pusher Street, but the blockade only lasted a couple of hours.
Which illegal activity?
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