Saying she wants to get the "corpses out of the closet" before they're discovered by others, Sweden's new Culture Minister Amanda Lind says she smoked cannabis (pot) twice, but doesn't anymore. "Others may judge whether it is a big or a small thing," she said. "I wouldn't do it today. We must have a restrictive drug policy."
The Green Party member of parliament joined the Social Democratic Party cabinet of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven late last month. She succeeds MP Alice Bah Kuhnke, who is now a candidate for the European Parliament.
Moderate Party MP Hanif Bali joked on Twitter, "I look forward to having a hippie as Minister of Culture. Incense, chakra massage and tons of weed in the ministry." Lind, a licensed psychologist, has studied herbal alternative medicine, acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
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