Denmark to look at decriminalising drugs

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Denmark to look at decriminalising drugs
The Local
July 27th, 2014

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) call for the decriminalisation of drugs will be taken up by Danish politicians in the autumn.

In the WHO report, which focused on international HIV prevention, the UN agency encourages countries to stop criminalising the use of drugs.

“Countries should work toward developing policies and laws that decriminalise injection and other use of drugs and, thereby, reduce incarceration,” the report read.

The report’s recommendation, and Denmark’s overall approach to its national drug policy, will be on the political agenda when politicians return to Christiansborg following summer holiday.

“I can go as far today as to say that I think WHO’s message is in line with what has been a Social Democratic position,” Flemming Møller Mortensen, the health spokesman for the governing Social Democrats, told Information.
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If Denmark actually ends up decriminalizing drugs, I think I will seriously look into trying to move there.
 
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