Why Ban Drugs? Part VII: Sweden and the Issue of National Sovereignty
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I could not do justice to the story of the Swedish drug policy in the way that Tim Boekhout-van Solinge has[1]; his is a highly professional, book-length academic work with a great deal of nuanced cultural perspective. But my aim is less to produce a comprehensive picture than to illustrate certain lessons which can be extracted. What values in Swedish culture, what institutional arrangements, what political preferences created the ground for the policies which developed? Why did they work, and how did they fail where they did?
Why Ban Drugs? Part VII: Sweden and the Issue of National Sovereignty
Why Ban Drugs? Part VII: Sweden and the Issue…
Why Ban Drugs? Part VII: Sweden and the Issue of National Sovereignty
I could not do justice to the story of the Swedish drug policy in the way that Tim Boekhout-van Solinge has[1]; his is a highly professional, book-length academic work with a great deal of nuanced cultural perspective. But my aim is less to produce a comprehensive picture than to illustrate certain lessons which can be extracted. What values in Swedish culture, what institutional arrangements, what political preferences created the ground for the policies which developed? Why did they work, and how did they fail where they did?