the Greens believe that illegal drug use and possession of small quantities should not be punished, write to the party chairman, interior minister Maria Ohisalo facebook in.

Ohisalo comments to cannabis decriminalisation requires a citizens ‘ initiative, which received the parliamentary processing of the required 50 000 signatures in a heap last week. Cannabis initiative proposed for the decriminalization of cannabis use, few cannabis plant growth to settle it for their own use and for my own use for a small cannabis amount of possession.

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the Green stem illegal drug use and possession of small quantities of the offence is the line of, inter alia, the party’s political programme, Ohisalo recalls.

– Only current means are not working and drugs policy has to change direction, he writes.

the drug trade green should be penalized, Ohisalo write.

the green you already told me march Yle poll in favour of cannabis decriminalisation.

Is echoed in the government

the Green stem is more compliant than the major government partner, the centre party and the SDP. Last week, both parliamentary factions leaders line would STT that drug sales, possession and use will continue to be punishable. Either the minister of justice, the Swedish people’s party president Anna-Maja Henriksson does not want to decriminalise a drug use.

At the time, Ohisalo not had to comment on the matter to STT.

Ohisalo justify decriminalisation, for example, the World health organization’s recommendation.

– there Is international evidence that decriminalization to reduce drug-related problems, because users dared to seek treatment to the fireside, he writes.

Decriminalization in addition to Ohisalo require a substance abuse problem proactive care so that youth do not initiate illegal drug use at all.

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