The Government is spending millions sending young convicts on cruises in the hope it will help them stay clean. How should social services respond to a young hooligan who holds up a convenience store with a carving knife? Denmark has the answer - send him on a Caribbean cruise for a year. Local Danish councils have spent £4m sending youth criminals and drug abusers on sailing voyages in the Caribbean. Mayor, John Schmidt Andersen said it looks strange but this isn’t a cruise, there are demands made. One of the offenders said he had found it easy to get marijuana during his year on one of the ships. ‘The Caribbean is the world’s marijuana capital. It is growing everywhere, even the police smoke it. Down there it’s just a matter of finding someone on the streets with a joint and then buying some’.