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Bill On Safe Consumption Site Submitted To Parliament Again
A bill that, if passed, would establish a legal safe consumption site for drug addicts in Reykjavík and other municipalities has been introduced to Parliament for the second time. Red Cross Iceland say they welcome the legislation, though they believe it could…
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Cocaine In Iceland Increases In Volume, Decreases In Price
The price of cocaine in Iceland has decreased from 2017, as quantities seized by police and admissions to drug rehabs for cocaine addiction have increased, Vísir reports. Inga Sæland, the chair of the People’s Party, is also spearheading a parliamentary discussion on…
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New Legislation In Iceland Could Decriminalise Buying, Possessing Or Receiving Drugs
A new bill submitted to the Icelandic Parliament hopes to provide protections to those who buy and use controlled substances, while still criminalising the production and sale of them. The new bill—led by Pirate Party MP Halldóra Mogensen and eight other MPs…
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Artist Auður Gets An Earful From Chairman Bjarnheiður Hallsdóttir
The Chairman of the Icelandic Tourism Association, Bjarnheiður Hallsdóttir, has condemned the work of Auðunn Lúthersson, better known as Auður. She worried his music could have a negative influence on young people, and posted her opinion about him on her Facebook page,…
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Chess Nerds And The Drug-Knights That Say Ni!
It’s safe to say that the Icelandic nation was in shock when the president of the Icelandic Chess Federation was arrested after special forces burst into their headquarters in January last year. Shortly after the bust, the police issued a statement that…
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Safe Injection Site Plans Move Forward In Iceland
Plans to open a safe injection site for drug users in Reykjavík are moving forward according to Vísir. Minister of Health Svandís Svavardóttir is drafting legislation to legalise such a center. The proposed centre was the recommendation of a commission tasked with…
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The Icelandic Opioid Crisis: Iceland Approaching U.S. Numbers In Drug-Related Deaths
In the first half of 2018, 29 recorded deaths in Iceland were likely to be related to drug overdoses. This is a heavy increase compared to last year’s numbers, when 32 people died due to illicit substance consumption over the entire year.…
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Morphine Addiction In Iceland A Serious Epidemic Amongst Young Kids
According to Icelandic doctor Hjalti Már Björnsson, morphine addiction in Iceland is becoming an increasingly serious problems amongst young kids—one that authorities have to deal with as soon as possible, RÚV reports. The situation seems in fact to be developing in a similar way…
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Safe Consumption Centre For Drug Addicts To Open In Reykjavík
The Icelandic Ministry of Welfare and the City of Reykjavík have recently began working on a new supervised consumption centre for local drug addicts, Visir reports. The goal is to provide injections sites where people with severe drug addictions can consume and…
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24% Of Patients In Icelandic Nursing Homes Administered Antipsychotics
According to a new report from RÚV, one out of four individuals living in Icelandic nursing homes is prescribed psychotropic drugs (often used for schizophrenia) even when patients haven’t been diagnosed with any psychosis. Instead, these medicines are often used as sedatives…
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The Curious Case Of The Paralysed Lawyer
Almost six million ISK (€48,000) has been collected in a campaign to bring home an Icelandic woman who was paralysed in a dubious accident in Spain at the beginning of January. The woman, Sunna Elvira Þorkelsdóttir, works as a lawyer in Iceland,…
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42 Kilos Of Hard Drugs Seized At Keflavík Airport Last Year
Police in Suðurnes seized 42 kilos of hard drugs in 46 cases last year, all of them at Keflavík International Airport. This information and more was shared in a Facebook post from the police made today. This quantity was comprised of about…
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Iceland’s Red Cross Wants To Explore Space For IV Drug Users
The Red Cross in Iceland wants to explore an option tried in other countries with some success: creating a space for IV drug users to consume safely. There are some 700 IV drug users in Iceland, RÚV reports, and about 13 of…
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15-20 Thousand Icelanders Habitual Cannabis Users
Around 15-20 thousand Icelanders, or around 5.2% of the total population, use cannabis regularly, according to Helgi Gunnlaugsson, a professor from the University of Iceland, who researches cannabis use. This was among topics discussed at a conference hosted by SÁÁ, the National…
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Legalisation Of Cannabis Proposed In Parliament
Pawel Bartozek, an MP for the Reform Party, has put forth a bill for parliament, which would legalise the consumption of cannabis in Iceland. He points out that many US states have legalised cannabis consumption and that high profile individuals such as…
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Reykjavík’s Cocaine Underworld Reawakens
So far this year, customs agents at Keflavík International Airport have intercepted 20.7 kg of cocaine coming into Iceland, which is more cocaine than has been seized in the past four years total. The contraband is worth over half a billion ISK…
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Last Words: Printed Cocaine for the Rich
More cocaine, please, and fewer books. That’s how we like it. Yes, let the good times roll. Decadence is hip again. Finally! It was only gone for a few years, but god, how long that felt. The uniform Range Rovers are back;…
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Icelandic Facebook Groups: The Drug Groups
DISCLAIMER: Drugs are illegal in Iceland and also stupid. That said… Let’s say you’re an aspiring drug dealer with no friends—how do you move your shit? How do you get a collection of loyal customers? How do you grind and hustle and…
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Narcotics Market Getting Rougher: Increase In Prices, Prostitution And Crime
According to figures from SÁÁ, the National Centre of Addiction Medicine, the underground world of narcotics, pushers and drug dealing is increasingly getting more brutal. Recently, a new medicine database was introduced, which allows doctors to keep a closer eye of the…
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Police Against Drug Decriminalisation
Police in the Westfjords have issued a statement to the government, present and future, expressing serious concerns about their budget funding and the possibility of decriminalising illicit substances. Westfjords news service Bæjarins bestu reports that the police are primarily worried about what…
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Health Ministry Workgroup: Limit Some Drug Crime Sentences To Fines
A workgroup assembled by the Ministry of Health has recommended that the punishment for the possession or use of illegal drugs be limited solely to fines. The prospect of jail time, the workgroup contends, prevents people from seeking help out of fear…
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Fentanyl: Don’t Fuck With That Shit
Last weekend, some sad news came to light that brought back some bad memories for me, and shock and grief to a lot of other people. Namely, a young man passed away from taking Fentanyl, a powerful hospital-grade opiate. In fact, the…
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Police No Longer Have Drug Crimes Division
While they will still arrest people for breaking drug laws, the police say their investigative emphasis has shifted to larger matters. Vísir reports that capital area police no longer have a drug crimes division within their ranks. Rather, investigations of drug crimes…