’I did drugs and Sweden should get real’: Pirate Party founder - The Local
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I haven’t ’tried’ drugs. I have ’used’ drugs, and enjoyed it. That’s the whole damn point," he wrote. “The Swedish elitist debate is seriously deranged on these issues - to start getting realistic, we must first acknowledge that people are using drugs because they enjoy doing so.”
“It’s really no difference from enjoying a glass of wine or a fine cognac. Or for that matter, a cup of coffee, which is a very common drug that was once banned in Sweden as - wait for it - a ’gateway drug to heavier abuse’. Yes, you read that right.”
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The Pirate Party founder believes Sweden’s approach to drugs in general is a tool of aggression for the police.