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From Denmark: Drug addicts sell 10,000 copies of Denmark’s Illegal! magazine

Danish drug addicts have started to sell a magazine launched to help them fund their habit, in the hope that they will turn away from prostitution or crime as a way to pay for their next hit.

The drug and culture magazine, Illegal!, is the brainchild of self-styled social entrepreneur Michael Lodberg Olsen and states openly that its vendors will probably use their income to go out and buy more drugs.

“It has two aims: we want to (help) decriminalise drug users, and we want to give them job opportunities to reduce crime and prostitution,” Lodberg Olsen told AFP.

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Source: the journal.ie, 19/01/2014

Posted by Andy on 01/19 at 05:56 PM in
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