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Copenhagen Mayor Begs Tourists Not To Buy Pot at Christiania Freetown, After Deadly Shooting – The Problem? Half a Million of Them Visit Every Year for Exactly That

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It’s known as a ‘hippie paradise’ – but is it? Whatever our opinion, it’s a drug-fuelled tourist destination where utopia and dystopia seem to be rolled into one.

Fristaden Christiania (Christiania Freetown), also known as Christiania or simply the ‘Staden’, is a commune and  ‘micro nation’ situated in a neighborhood occupying the low beaches and islets between Danish capital, Copenhagen, and Amager island.

There, the Amagerkaner  live in a ‘anarchist consensus democracy’ – whatever that means.

It all began in 1971, when ‘proto hippies’ squatted in a military base situated there.

Over 50 years after, Christiania is the fourth largest tourist attraction in Copenhagen,

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