{"title":"Clashing Perspectives: Cannabis Users and Swedish Drug Policy","authors":"Josefin Månsson, Mats Ekendahl, Patrik Karlsson","doi":"10.16993/bbo.k","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In a Swedish study treatment staff, youth cannabis users and adult cannabis users are interviewed about the risks of taking drugs. They all mobilize evidence-based arguments for their standpoints but arrive at quite different conclusions. Drug policy becomes “a matter of concern rather than a matter of facts”.","PeriodicalId":239499,"journal":{"name":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.k","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In a Swedish study treatment staff, youth cannabis users and adult cannabis users are interviewed about the risks of taking drugs. They all mobilize evidence-based arguments for their standpoints but arrive at quite different conclusions. Drug policy becomes “a matter of concern rather than a matter of facts”.