The ongoing drug investigation should try to clarify how a decriminalization of drug use could improve addiction treatment. A strong argument for fully legalizing cannabis is also the gang criminals’ financial dependence on cannabis revenue, writes Skyttedal in a debate article in Dagens Nyheter.
“There is broad, basically unanimous, political support for the prevailing zero-tolerance line, and the scope for problematizing the current order is, to say the least, limited. I know that – not least because I myself have previously contributed to the prevailing hegemony of opinion,” she writes and notes that she has now reassessed her position.