Sahlin evokes Obama in cannabis gaffe (Sweden)

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S we can! exclaimed the Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin at the party's conference in Västerås in southern Sweden on Saturday.

She had intended to evoke associations with US president Barack Obama. But what Sahlin was not aware was that this is the name of an organisation that advocates the legalization of hash and marijuana in Sweden.

"Swecan is a meeting place for cannabis enthusiasts and a source for accurate and science-based information about the weed," explains the group on their homepage.

"It was fun yesterday (Friday), but if I am to use it again then I shall have to add that I am not calling for the legalisation of cannabis," Mona Sahlin said to news agency TT.

Sahlin's press secretary was reportedly keen to point out to the news agency that if you search for TT on the internet you come to the Tamil Tigers.

The message at the Social Democrat's conference to discuss the future was that it was they, the opposition, who can, and not the Alliance government.

http://www.thelocal.se/17286/20090201/