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Denmark: Wire: Drug Dealers Go On Strike

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Wednesday 26 Mar 2003


Pubdate: Wed, 26 Mar 2003
Source: Reuters (Wire)
Copyright: 2003 Reuters Limited

DRUG DEALERS GO ON STRIKE

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Drug dealers in Copenhagen's Christiania hippie
colony took novel action on Wednesday by going on strike to protest against
proposals to bulldoze the alternative "free city."

Some politicians, mainly from the ruling center-right Liberals party, have
called for the 30-year-old colony to be demolished to make way for a big
urban renewal scheme.

"All trade has been stopped since this morning and we do not know how long
this strike will take, maybe days, maybe months," Pernilla Hansen at the
Christiania information office told Reuters.

"We want to show the government that an open market for soft drugs is
better then forcing people on to streets where much harder stuff is sold
illegally," she said.

The 75-acre former military compound bordering a picturesque area in
downtown Copenhagen was occupied by hippie squatters in 1971 and declared
an autonomous "free city" and alternative society.

With a population of around 1,000, it is one of Copenhagen's most popular
tourist attractions, visited by about half a million people a year, many to
buy soft drugs such as cannabis.
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