“The government today defied the advice of drug experts and upgraded cannabis from class C to class B,” the Guardian writes. The newspaper article continues say that the “decision to upgrade the drug went against the recommendations of the government's scientific experts, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.”

But who cares about silly and irrelevant things like facts when there is a war on drugs to fight? Swedish governments of the past thirty years never bothered about scientific facts. If people want to believe cannabis is a dangerous gateway drug that kills, then that is what it is.