Thread by @pohjanraito

#Finland's lawmakers adopted the UN convention on drugs as-is in 1971. Harry Anslingers #racist legacy reached these northern shores one vote past the bar.

Ever since #Cannabis has been the #media evil, where #alcohol kills thousands yearly.

#cannabis #denial #doublestandard

https://twitter.com/pohjanraito/status/1252224260619341827

#Finland's local media has been working hard lately.

The local papers in co-operation with associations like #YAD have been generating lot of articles on how #cannabis is somehow responsible for #polydrug-use, or #abuse of drugs among #young people.

#Alcohol never mentioned. 😅

Meanwhile, Statistics #Finland's numbers on kids reveal, that 44% of finnish 14 to 16 year-olds use #alcohol.

This is never mentioned in any of the papers writing #exploitation and #scare stories on #cannabis.

Neither are the other abused #drugs: rx #medication, #amphetamines.

The finnish @Laakariliitto doctors commonly prescribe #amphetamine's to kids and adults.

Death of a girl prescribed amphetamine & opiates was usual #exploitation story for the #finnish newspapers (journalism is dead among them), but reveals the culprits:

iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/944d…

The real-life reasons always the same:
#alcohol
#amphetamine
#subutex

The fake story in finnish #media always the same:
#Cannabis among #criminal friends.

#lies #propaganda #denial
#kaksinaismoralismi #propagandaa #valheita #itsepetos

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Ok made one error there. The prescription was amphetamines, opiates were through illegal markets.

Somehow the Official Story was pretty much blaming cannabis, for what the Medical Association @Laakariliitto pharmaceutical quality amphetamine did.

Thanks Doc! #medicalization

@Laakariliitto
Mitenkäs siellä Lääkäriliitossa meni #medikalisaatio-projektin palat? Onko #dextroamfetamiini yhä lukioikäisille? (ks. ketju edellä)

Lekurit ollu historiallisesti persoja alkoholille ja amfetamiineille
- sehän kyllä on täällä tiedossa.

Mutta että lukioikäisille?