{"id":2857,"date":"2009-07-21T13:42:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2009-07-21T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:42:46","slug":"96-of-sweden-population-supports-restrictive-drug-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/96-of-sweden-population-supports-restrictive-drug-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"96% Of Sweden Population Supports Restrictive Drug Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>According to an opinion poll commissioned by the biggest Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter (ON), and carried out by TEMO, an overwhelming majority, 96 per cent, of the Swedish population supports a restrictive drug policy. As such an overwhelming majority is extremely rare, TEMO, double- checked the results. Out of 1.002 people aged 16 years and older almost all answered that they were against any idea that Sweden would allow use of cannabis, so-called \u2018party drugs\u2019 and other drugs. More than nine out of ten 16- 29-year-olds said they were against such ideas.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>The survey clearly indicates that the Swedish Government\u2019s government bill, due to be presented later this year, on a continued and developed restrictive drug policy has massive popular support. Furthermore, comments on the final report from the Swedish Governments Narcotic Commission show a strong support from local, regional and national authorities for a continued and intensified fight against drugs.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Source: Opinion poll in , Dagens Nyheter. Oct 2001.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an opinion poll commissioned by the biggest Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter (ON), and carried out by TEMO, an overwhelming majority, 96 per cent, of the Swedish population supports a restrictive drug policy. As such an overwhelming majority is extremely rare, TEMO, double- checked the results. Out of 1.002 people aged 16 years and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}