In 2024, Christiania residents and authorities physically dug up and removed Pusher Street entirely, with Copenhagen announcing plans to build public housing on the site.
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Unable to call the police but deeply troubled by what Pusher Street had become, Christiania's residents tried a range of unconventional counter-measures. In the late 1970s, when heroin arrived, residents collectively expelled heroin dealers and gave addicts an ultimatum: enter treatment or leave, with random urine tests to enforce compliance. They appealed to the public to buy hash elsewhere — a surreal anti-drug campaign aimed at their own tourists. One particularly audacious tactic, described by a Quora source Josh acknowledges with appropriate skepticism, involved residents staging an incident designed to trigger a police raid, then warning their neighbors but not the dealers. In 2022, police raided Pusher Street 100 times alone — yet it kept bouncing back. The definitive solution came in 2024: residents physically dug up and demolished Pusher Street, with Copenhagen now planning public housing on the site by 2029.
In 2022 alone, Copenhagen police raided Pusher Street 100 times, yet the drug trade continued to bounce back each time.
Unable to call the police themselves, Christiania residents allegedly staged an incident they knew would trigger a police raid — then warned all their neighbors but not the drug dealers on Pusher Street. The cops cleared the dealers; residents kept their hands clean.
After decades of failed raids, gang wars, and public appeals, Christiania's residents and Copenhagen authorities physically dug up Pusher Street in 2024. Local crafts now sell where hash stalls once stood, and public housing is planned for the site by 2029.
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