In 1978, the action against the State is lost in the Supreme Court, and Christiania mobilizes again. A plan to motivate hundreds of thousands of people in defence of Christiania is mounted, and Christiania again runs in the municipal elections. The Christiania list wins a new representative in the town council, Thorkild Weiss Madsen, who is quickly known for his inflammatory speeches against property speculation and bulldozer slum clearances.

Parliament now adopts a proposal for working out a local plan for the area, leading to normalization, but without any indication of how or when.

New threats are lurking
In Copenhagen, the police hound junkies and hash dealers. At the same time, heroin is introduced in Denmark on a grand scale. This is evident in Christiania where the trade in hash grows, and the number of junkies accelerates. Christiania tries to cooperate with the police to clear the hash market of junk, but gets shafted by the police management who prefers instead to raid the hash dealers in a big action.

The Freetown community now takes the affair into their own hands and institutes a program for drying out junkies and taking action against junk dealers. It culminates in 1979/80, when a blockade against junk is organized. The junkies in Christiania get the option of drying out or moving out. The dealers in hard drugs are removed bodily. Wiser by experience from the junk blockade, Solvognen (the Sun Wagon) stages the musical "The White Castle," a total theatre about the paths and economy of junk, and its connections with the arms industry.

Although these are, in many ways, dark years, the culture blooms. From 1978 to 1981 when rocker terror puts an end to its activities, Rockmaskinen (the Rockmachine) becomes the stomping ground of the growing punk scene in Copenhagen. The cabaret scene flowers in Operaen (the Opera), Rockmaskinen and Månefiskeren (the Moonfisher), and in 1981, a Christiania cabaret goes to Italy, invited by the city council of Modena. The same year, the Christiania Sports Club, CSC, is established as the rallying point of a lot of sports activities.

In 1981, the government asks the consulting firm of Møller and Grønborg to work out a plan for the future use of the area. While the Christianites build and rebuild, lay out gardens and bear children, the consultants bring forth a report recommending that Christiania be developed as an experimental city with a large degree of autonomy.

Conservative smear campaign
That same year, the country gets a new conservative-liberal government instead of the old social democratic one, and a violent smear campaign against Christiania starts in Sweden. The Freetown is accused of being the narcotics centre of Northern Europe, and the root of all evil.

Christiania responds with the action "Love Sweden," where Christianites "take over" Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö with parades, cabarets and exhibitions.

Politically speaking, Christiania is forgotten during the next years. As a consequence, the Freetown gets the opportunity and the peace to create new, collective work places and to work on its visions.

The support arrangements for the Indians of Big Mountain in the US, and the Aassiviq conference about Greenland are held in Den Grå Hal (the Grey Hall) as an expression of Christiania's relationship with other ethnic groups. Altogether, many international contacts with alternative circles are formed during these years.