http://politiken.dk/indland/article649801.ece
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Hash Trading spreads on the streets of Copenhagen
Although Pusherstreet Street were cleared and smoking clubs are closed, are still sold lots of hash in Copenhagen.
The closure of Pusherstreet Street in Christiania hash has spread beyond Copenhagen.
Several years of intensive police efforts against hashish trafficking in hashish in Christiania, and clubs have spread the illegal market from all over Copenhagen.
In the midst of Israel Square in Copenhagen, there is lively hashish trade. The camp also serves as a schoolyard to a nearby school.
In Lithuania Space Vesterbro can still buy hashish right next to a playground, although the police for over a year ago struck against dealers on the site.
And Jægersborg Street at Nørrebro residents have long been bothered by openly selling hashish.
Hash sales have become more visible
The Director of the Copenhagen Police, Hanne Bech Hansen, acknowledges that the closure of Pusherstreet Street has become a burden on ordinary citizens.
'Hash Sales have been more visible, and it is more uncomfortable for people because they can now see that there will be traded, "she says.
In recent years, the Copenhagen Police managed to get Pusherstreet Street in Christiania removed and then had the key turned in the hash clubs. Today Copenhagen Police know only one active hashklub.
Hash can be bought everywhere
Yet critics believe that the police have achieved anything with effort.
'Neither clearing Pusherstreet Street or closure of cannabis clubs has affected the sale of hashish. Hash is very accessible and can be bought everywhere, "said Peter Ege, which is abuse experts and social senior consultant in the Municipality of Copenhagen, Politiken.
Gangwar on hashish sales
The spread of hashish sales are by Michael Hviid Jacobsen, sociologist at Aalborg University, also contributed to several groups currently combative in Copenhagen.
The war is among others to secure the money, hashish trade brings. Many immigrant gangs is triggered by the decision to clear the Pusherstreet Street because they thus were able to penetrate the lucrative hashish market. This way you can say that the gang war is an unintended consequence of political decisions to close Pusherstreet Street, "said Michael Hviid Jacobsen to Politiken.
Police Director: The Way Forward
Today feels Hanne Bech Hansen, however, that efforts at Christiania and the closure of cannabis clubs have been successful:
"It has become more risky to buy and sell hashish, which is the way forward," said police director.
She acknowledges that part of the gang war is about hashish but denies that there is a direct correlation with the closure of Pusherstreet Street.
"It is a complicated conflict, which among other things, is about drugs, but also about power, women, and revenge," said Hanne Bech Hansen for Politiken.
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Legalise hash: It is less dangerous than drug gangs
The fight against trafficking in cannabis has been one of the most meaningless of modern times: this almost five years after the closure of Pusherstreet Street in Christiania is both demand and supply unchanged. Sales are still up to 2 billion dollars a year.
The only difference is that the hashish trade has been severely brutalizing and useless police have spent thousands of man hours to push the dealers around the streets, alleys and in and out of the many new cannabis clubs. As a result of ban currently in the U.S. in the 1920s, only managed to diversify sales to more mafia-like gangs.
If the purpose of the Liberal government's tough policy against cannabis market initially was to reduce sales, the project has in all its forms has been a failure. It is only the most hard-cooked rocker and immigrant gangs, which have benefited from police Sisyphus work.
Paradoxically, the hash was more accessible, because dealers have become more aggressive, and the trade are scattered in the school grounds and youth clubs. The self, in spite of everything embossed hashish market in Christiania - where the toughest substances eg. was banned - is now replaced by an armed jungle.
Government policy towards the hash based on an illusion that hundreds of thousands of Danes do not already enjoy cannabis frequently. This will remind zero tolerance of cannabis is not just about puritan campaign against alcohol in the 1920s, but unfortunately also on the Vatican's position on HIV / AIDS because of unprotected sex: Abstinence Only true - and therefore would prefer to let everything collapse in chaos than help to conduct a pragmatic policy that brings the phenomenon of social control.
Like condoms is a simple and smart solution to the infection risk by sex, is a controlled legalization of cannabis also the most efficient way to get both the worst abuses and bandekriminalitet for life on. It is perhaps not as pious as virginity, but a practical solution in a society where one-third smoke or have smoked tjald.
Hash should be drawn away from the criminal underworld, so youth can learn openly and honestly about the harm caused by abuse - and then the whole financial basis under bandekriminaliteten can smash.
The recent escalation of gang violence can only be stopped if the economic base during drug gangs tearing away. Therefore, hash legalized - not least to bring peace to the streets.
I wonder when they actually learn it: It has been clear for years that it is impossible to keep illegal drugs out of the most controlled environments in our society, namely prisons. So if one closes one channel of trade in these substances, they simply pop up another stedl. Trade volume has nothing to prohibit efforts to do, but governed by supply and demand.
An increased police efforts can not reduce demand, most prices have to rise, and it still will never be able to overcome the problem, the whole effort 100% fruitless.
Not least because the problem seems to be independent of the ban or not: in Holland, which for years has been able to buy the drug quite legally, consumption of hashish by. person a little less than it is in Denmark.
In Copenhagen it operated for many years reasonably well: Pusherstreet Street served as a key "hash supermarket", the situation was reasonably stable, and apart from police harassment of people who left Christiania, was the substance of the practice legal. The problems were minimized by being together in one place.
Today, as throughout the city, we see the consequences: increased and more visible crime bandekrig in the wake of the new economic structures. Prohibition policy exhibited in all its hideous nakedness.
