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In the course of the 2000s Denmark has experienced a shift in drug policy in general and of cannabis policy in particular. Danish drug policy used to be known as liberal, but is now saturated with ‘zero‐tolerance’ and ‘tough on crimes’ rhetoric. What happened, and what have the consequences been? This article describes recent changes, focusing on the closing of Pusher Street in Christiania, Copenhagen, one of northern Europe's largest open cannabis markets. This most spectacular outcome can also be seen as a conquered symbol of a former liberal ‐ and for many too lenient ‐ drug policy.

Even though there is much information available with regard to the development of the therapeutic community (TC) for addictions in Europe, little is known about the particular situation in Denmark.The paper aims to discuss this issue.

In order to address this dearth, the methodology of the following historical account is largely based on an interview and personal contacts with Hanne Holm Hage-Ali, current director of TC Opbygningsgården and star witness of the development of TC in Denmark.

In 1971, the Freetown “Christiania”, Copenhagen, where TC Opbygningsgården started up, was based on communal, anarchic and hippie ideas and values. In the beginning, TC Opbygningsgården was not well accepted by TC pioneers promoting the classic hierarchical TC, as it was seen as a social experiment with anti-authoritarian roots. Later, in its turn, it became influenced by TCs Veksthuset and Phoenix House Haga, Norway, which were part of the common European TC movement. At this moment, TC Opbygningsgården functions as a well-accepted member of the European Federation of Therapeutic Communities.

The interview revealed information that it is line with current trends in and challenges for TC throughout Europe, as outlined in a recent EMCDDA study: TC in Europe can be considered as “children of the late sixties”; TCs are embedded in the anti-psychiatric movement, existentialism and the promotion of alternative community living; European TC leaders had different origins and professional background; and the TC never belonged to one religion or ideology. The common human value system always transcended the different visions.

This paper aims at addressing the dearth in knowledge on the development of TCs in Denmark.

The purpose of this paper is to give information on Copenhagen City Council's submission of a formal proposal to legalize cannabis.

Written in the form of a letter to Drugs and Alcohol Today, the author provides information on the formal proposal submitted by Copenhagen City Council and the background to this in the context of Denmark's history.

The final submitted proposal suggests state run outlets in neutral locales where buyers will receive information on cannabis with purchases. The advantages are described in extension of the direct regulation of availability through opening hours, number of outlets, age limitations, and restrictions on amounts per purchase. The disadvantage in the form of an expected increase in prevalence is dismissed; perhaps a little too easily.

The proposal presents an interesting example of how drug policy dilemmas can be perceived differently at the national and local levels.

The latest information from the magazine chemist is extremely valuable. He has dealt with milk‐adulteration and how it is done. His advice, if followed, might, however, speedily bring the manipulating dealer before a magistrate, since the learned writer's recipe is to take a milk having a specific gravity of 1030, and skim it until the gravity is raised to 1036; then add 20 per cent. of water, so that the gravity may be reduced to 1030, and the thing is done. The advice to serve as “fresh from the cow,” preferably in a well‐battered milk‐measure, might perhaps have been added to this analytical gem.

The banking environment is characterised by continuing social, economic, technological and regulatory change, and current challenges include increasing competition from both bank and non‐bank institutions, rapidly developing technological innovation, and changing customer needs. The focus is on technological developments and the Nordic Bank environment, and findings from a survey among Norwegian companies are presented. The Survey considers their use of and attitudes towards electronic banking services. Recommendations are made with respect to the marketing activities of Norwegian banks with regard to electronic cash management services for corporate clients, and the future for such services.

This article is based on the author’s experience as head of a leading international business school, with strong embedded values in providing the highest level of quality business education within a global perspective. The scope of the article is one of focusing on a global business school, i.e. one which is able to draw on professors and students to come together for teaching and learning in a “global meeting‐place” from all over the world. The article provides the following results, conclusions and recommendations: first, a distinction is made between local business schools, serving typically a national market, regional business schools, typically serving a number of national markets, but within the same language area, and global business schools, typically serving the entire world community. Then the content of a global curriculum is reviewed, and five items are being identified: a strategic competence, a partnership competence, a staffing competence, a learning competence, and an organizational competence. In order to pursue global growth and to develop the capabilities for this, a conceptual model by Chakravarthy and Lorange is then being introduced, where one’s strength will be the starting‐point/basis for further global expansion, either by leveraging one’s capability vis‐à‐vis new markets, or by building a new business by adding new competences to the existing ones, or as a next step by combining the two leveraging and building dimensions into a transform strategy. Four managerial challenges are then being reviewed for the leading global business school, namely the issue of language, the mix of the student body, the degree of internationalization of the teaching and administrative staff, as well as the global marketing challenge. The article concludes with a discussion regarding an optimal location for the global business school. It is argued that perhaps many of today’s leading business schools, being located in major markets, will not have an optimal location, due to the fact that these major markets can more or less explicitly lead to a nationally based bias of the teaching and research being undertaken, i.e. obstructing the globality focus of the business school. A small country location might therefore be preferable.

SOME admirable remarks by Sir Gregory Foster on the Library Association are printed in The Library Association Record for May. Deprecating certain strictures on the Association, he is reported to have said: “He felt that it should be recognized that that Association had a very difficult task. Step by step they were bringing about the organization of the profession, which until the Association was founded was entirely unorganized. To organize a profession was a difficult matter and took time. No doubt the Association has made many mistakes, but such mistakes are inevitable, having regard to the nature of the business undertaken. The business of all those interested in the Profession of Librarian‐ship is to support the L.A., and to help it discharge its duties more and more effectively.” That is well said, and represents our own views; but, within the Association, every member should reserve to himself the right of criticism. The fact that mistakes have been made is the clearest indication of the necessity for such criticism, and although we deprecate public criticism of the L.A., that association has no special reason to pride itself because it has been so eloquently defended. It is not a new association just feeling its feet; it has been struggling to find them for nearly half‐a‐century.

ACCORDING to the Directory of Libraries in the United States and Canada, there are about 4,500 libraries of a more or less public character in those two countries. The Literary Year‐book, Clegg's Directory, and other authorities, furnish the information that at least 2,000 public libraries exist in the United Kingdom. Allowing 10,000 more for the rest of the world, we get a total of 16,500 libraries. Deducting three‐fourths of this number as representing libraries of the smallest and most poverty‐stricken or special kind, we obtain 4,000 institutions capable of supporting professional literature of all forms. A sanguine librarian might be induced by these figures to launch out in authorship, certain of his market, and might even be prone to disregard the warning that not more than about one‐tenth of these 4,000 libraries are to be depended upon as possible purchasers.