Denmark calls tourists to stop encouraging weed business in capital following shooting

The mayor of Copenhagen has urged the city's visitors to refrain from buying weed in the city’s famous Christiania neighborhood following last week's shooting, which killed a 30-year-old man due to gang fighting over the marijuana trade in the area.

As reported by Reuters, the shooting of August 26 on the district's central Pusher Street was the latest in a bloody feud between rival gangs, the Hells Angels and the outlawed Loyal to Family. Both are trying to monopolize the sale of cannabis in the free commune Christiania, famous for its free trade of marijuana.

Even though the trade of hash is illegal in Denmark, authorities have refrained from forcibly stopping the activity, taking place mainly on Pusher Street in the neighbourhood. The city so far defended this practice, arguing that it was preferable to keep the drug business concentrated in one area of the city, preventing it from spreading to other areas as well as stopping people from switching to "harder" drugs by making "soft" ones readily available. Recent events

According to Reuters, this is not the first such incident in the commune, with multiple shootings having occurred last year. This has been leading to its residents becoming discontent and calling for the stop of the hash trade in Christiana, which is a former army barracks that was claimed by hippies during the 1970s.