Should marijuana be legalized?

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   Allthough the official policy has changed in the last ten years in Denmark towards less tolerance and more fines for even personal possession of weed, culminating in the closing of Pusher Street in Christiania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania in 2004, I still think most Danes are pretty liberal when it comes to Marijuana. Of course I can´t speak for the whole population, but most people I know think that legalization is the only way forward. Personally I think it´s a personal choice. If you ask me alcohol is a much worse sinner and not many people are talking about removing that from the shelves.

On a sidenote the closing of the marijuana trade in Christiania has brought a lot of bad things with it. Before the closing of the trade in 2004 people came to Christiania when they wanted to puchase their weed and while there were smoking clubs and pushers other places in the country as well before 2004, we now have maybe ten times as many now and most of them are controlled by hardcore gangs. We´ve even had a gang war going on in Denmark in the last couple of years with people getting shot in the street ( even innocents), which is pretty likely connected to the trade of marijuana ( and harder drugs). Something that you didn´t see as much of when most of the trade was situated at Christiania. One other thing that was great about the trade on Christiania compared to the trade in the clubs and at the local pushers is that hard drugs are forbidden on Christiania. If you caught with hard drugs on Christiania you´ll be thrown out of the freetown. At the clubs and at the local pusher the kids are much more likely to be exposed to the trade of hard drugs when they come to buy their weed.

Poll Question: Should marijuana be legalized?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Yes	105	[80.77%]
No	25	[19.23%]
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