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City Council will push parliament to legalise pot PETER STANNERS While Copenhagen City Council pushes ahead with a plan to allow the sale of marijuana, it is uncertain whether parliament would approve the measure
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he legalisation of marijuana in Copenhagen came a step closer after the City Council voted last week on Thursday to investigate ways to decriminalise the drug. A committee has now been established to determine the best way to legalise the sale of cannabis, with special stores owned by the council presenting itself as the preferred candidate. The sale, consumption and cultivation of marijuana is illegal in Denmark,
all of which can be punished with warn- (Socialdemokraterne) – were blocked at the national level, but Rasmussen ings, fines or jail time. Despite this there is a strong black believes that this time around there is a market for the drug generating 1.5 bil- majority in parliament to support a relion kroner a year and controlled entire- write of the existing drug policy, which would be required for Copenhagen to ly by criminal gangs. According to councillor Lars Aslan move ahead with its plans. The proposal, however, faces an Andersen (Socialdemokraterne) taking control of this trade would benefit eve- uncertain fate after MPs representing a variety of political parties expressed unryone. “It’s better that the council distrib- ease with the idea. “We strongly urge Frank Jensen as utes cannabis and not criminals,” he said. “I hope we get the opportunity to the country’s former justice minister to try a new policy because we can’t just stop this crazy proposal,” Martin Geertcontinue the current prohibition strat- sen (Venstre), a former deputy mayor of egy with cannabis which is very out- Copenhagen, told the media. MP Ole Hækkerup (Socialdated.” Similar proposals have been put demokraterne) argued the proposal forth by the City Council in recent would have grave social consequences. “We don’t want to make it easier to years. All of them – including the most get hold of cannabis because then more recent, in January 2010 which received Organise a personal meeting the backing of the mayor, Frank Jensen people would use it and be worse off
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for it,” Hækkerup told Jyllands Posten newspaper. “If you look at people who use hard drugs, two thirds of them started with cannabis.” Jeppe Mikkelsen (Radikale) added that his party was uncertain of where it stood on the issue. “It’s well known that we have been for and against [decriminalisation] within the party,” Mikkelsen said. “Personally I’m not religiously inclined to keep the current model, but we haven’t discussed it yet so we have to look at the proposals and see where we stand.” A special committee will now investigate the best way to proceed with the decriminalistion of marijuana, but with parliament requiring its approval, and it not appearing in the common government policy, it make take some time before the issue is addressed by the government.
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