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The now-aging hippies who took over a derelict naval base in Copenhagen more than 50 years ago and turned it into a freewheeling community known as Christiania want to boot out criminals who control the community's lucrative market for hashish by ripping up the cobblestoned street where it openly changes hands.
“For more than 40 years, Christiania and the illegal sale of drugs out here has been a huge thorn in the side of the established society.”
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- The now-aging hippies who took over a derelict naval base in Copenhagen more than 50 years ago and turned it into a freewheeling community known as Christiania want to boot out criminals who control the community's lucrative market for hashish by ripping up the cobblestoned street where it openly changes hands.
Tourists are still welcome to visit Christiania, he added, but not for drugs
Residents will start digging up Pusher Street to create a new Christiania without the ‘criminal hashish market’