ARENDAL (Dagbladet): The debate on the leaders of the youth occasion took position in Arendal on Wednesday night.
In the midst of the discussion, Grønn Ungdom spokesperson Tobias Stokkeland pulled up a joint.
– It was a actual joint, acquired very last week ahead of I went to Arendal, he tells Dagbladet.
– Why do you do this in a debate?
– I think it truly is a excellent way to present how effortless it is to purchase hash now, how unregulated it is. Nobody checks the ID, nobody checks the strength or if it consists of poison. I imagine it essentially exhibits how lousy it is to have an unregulated sector, she replies.
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Drug plan and cannabis legalization was just one of the subjects throughout the youth bash leader’s discussion during Arendal week on Wednesday night.
– Are you committing a criminal offense, Stokkeland?
– Confident. It truly is a way to make a political issue, and I do it even if it is really illegal.
Most of the youth get-togethers in Norway want a strong liberalization of drug plan in the state.
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Senterungdommen leader Torleik Svelle criticizes the stunt.
– As the chief of a youth occasion, you have a terrific duty as in the pastlde, Svelle tells Dagbladet.
He believes the drug discussion is entirely off monitor.
– Bringing a joint into the discussion is entirely crazy. It demonstrates how hopeless the drug discussion has develop into. We should really converse about how to support folks get drunk as minor as doable: this ought to be the aim of drug policy in Norway, Svelle says.
Nor does the leader of the Socialist Youth, Synnøve Snyen, guidance the motion.
– I consider it is not strategic to gain the drug debate. Drug reform is urgently needed and that destroys that position, he tells Dagbladet.
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