- We do not believe that drug abuse can be punished. We see it as the fact that criminalization may mean that you do not seek help. Then we are ready to rethink today's politics. We want to decriminalize the mill itself, party leader Jonas Sjöstedt tells the newspaper.

However, the Left Party wants it to remain illegal to deal with drugs.

- We will do everything we can to combat drugs. But today's policy does not work, says Sjöstedt.