In the past 24 hours, a clip from CUF Greater Stockholm has been widely circulated in various channels on social media.
In the attention-grabbing video, a representative of the youth union argues that the black market can be made white by “responsible companies can make money” instead of fattening gang criminals, and believes that everyone should be free to “take a line of cocaine with grandmother on the terrace”.
But the outcome, which the C management distances itself from, is met with criticism from several quarters.
Markus Heilig, professor of psychiatry at Linköping University, claims, among other things, that the argument that the illegal market is stifled when drugs are legalized is incorrect and refers to several studies in the area.
– You rather expand the market and keep the illegal market. So it’s childish, it’s ill-conceived and it’s dangerous, he says.
In a comment to TV4 Nyheterna, Albin Schlegel Åberg, chairman of CUF Greater Stockholm, says that the intention of the video was to “break the stigma and start talking about the elephant in the room” and that they deliberately used radical rhetoric.
Watch the full interview with the drug expert in the player above.