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Även svenska forskare har insett detta, men det är såpass politiskt inkorrekt att göra någonting åt det
att politikerna helst ignorerar vetenskapliga data:
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Man har skapat instrument: gå på enskilda missbrukare för att störa, få dem att
tröttna, få in dem på vård och behandling, få dem att lägga av, och på så sätt få ett
narkotikafritt samhälle. Men tittar vi på siffrorna är vi ju längre ifrån detta än vi
nånsin har varit, säger Börje Olsson, professor i samhällsvetenskaplig alkohol- och
drogforskning vid Stockholms Universitet.
Han är mycket kritisk till delar av svensk narkotikapolitik som ända sedan 70-talet
haft en nolltolerans mot narkotika, istället för att som i Finland och många andra
europeiska länder inrikta sig på att försöka begränsa skadorna av missbruket istället.
— Sveriges radio intervjuar Börje Olsson, professor i samhällsvetenskaplig
alkohol- och drogforskning vid Stockholms Universitet. [7]
"Since the law permitting coerced body fluid tests was passed in 1993, the Swedish
police have initiated approximately 10,000 urine tests annually. It is difficult to claim
that this testing has achieved the intended results since reported recreational
consumption doubled between 1993 and 2000 (C.A.N., 2003, p. 227). Between 1992
and 1998 (the only available studies), problematic consumption increased by 37%
(Olsson, Adamsson Wahren, & Byqvist, 2001, p. 36). These figures illustrate how
supporters of Swedish drug policy have not shown an interest in using available
evidence that clearly indicates a need for modifying current approaches. Instead of
taking such setbacks seriously and investigating the validity of policy criticisms, the
strategy has been to simply claim that society cannot afford the risk of being involved
in field-testing alternative hypotheses (by trying a different policy), as this could lead
to even more people becoming dependent. Ultimately, attempts to initiate policy
reforms have been forestalled, and the status quo has prevailed."
— Ted Goldberg, professor i sociologi [8]
As discussed earlier, the notion that supply creates demand constitutes an important
theoretical basis for Swedish drug policy, and, in official proclamations, both the
police and customs units are assigned important roles. However, an analysis of actual
practices could lead one to conclude that the Swedish government does not really
believe that customs can be effective in this regard. Sweden began reducing
allocations for the customs authorities in the 1990s, but even when their resources
were at their highest level, no one claimed that more than a small percentage of the
drugs being smuggled into the country were being intercepted. Estimates were
usually in the range of 5-10%. Clearly a sparsely populated country with almost 3000
km (2000 miles) of coastline dotted with archipelagos cannot effectively seal its
borders. If one considers all of the people, airplanes, ships, motor vehicles, and goods
entering the country every year, it is understandable why there will always be a large
supply of illicit drugs available so long as consumers are willing to pay for them.
After Sweden joined the EU in 1995 it became easier to smuggle drugs, given that
they are readily available in continental Europe, and the Treaty of Rome provides for
the free movement of people and goods between member states. The demise of the
Soviet Union also opened borders in the Baltic region, thereby greatly increasing
illegal imports from the east, while the building of the Öresund Bridge (from
Copenhagen, Denmark to Malmö, Sweden) facilitated smuggling from the west.
Obviously no one knows the exact quantities of narcotics being smuggled into the
country each year, but indirect measures such as the amounts of illicit drugs seized
by customs and the police (C.A.N., 2003, p. 234), the number of people arrested for
narcotics crimes (C.A.N., p. 241), the number of people sentenced for narcotics
crimes (C.A.N., p. 244), street prices, and the number of people reporting use of drugs
(C.A.N., p. 227; Olsson, Adamsson Wahren & Byqvist, 2001, p. 36) all indicate that at
present illicit drugs are more readily available in Sweden than ever before. The
number of police officers working on drug cases in 2002 was 964, twice what it was
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