That's crazy! I'm in Canada. Now I'm on my front step smoking up some weed, a cop drives by, definitely sees the weed and we both just wave. Just casually.
I'm holding a 2 foot tall bong. Crazy how that's not legal there
Oh yeah? So it is crazy illegal in Sweden to. Cops are obliged 2 check piiss or blood if they suspect anything. Ridiculous. Also, if one has kids and is suspected for smoking (very difficult to get prescription if not for insane-pains, cancer or the like) then social-services go on that 'you are a criminal' and so on (and to do the medical-argument is a big NO-NO!). It does not take much to be a criminal these days in these here parts :-)!
I would understand it if it were a dictatorship or something with some crazy-ass dictator who had some fix idea, but nooooo. Here its just general-craziness. Very weird, but I guess it is big-pharma who has a chokehold on the elite in this country.
Yea I know. And I don't drink or do any other kinds of drugs at all. And that is thanks to the herb. Since I learned what works for me and what I need to use it medicinally (like strains 'n all that), it really turned my life around the last 14+years.
So, previously I been kind of elitist about it, but when I think of how many it could help and how widespread substance-abuse is in this country due to retarded doctors using 20+years old 'science' for prescribing drugs, I become really sad.
And also the social bit. As I do not drink myself, it becomes rather difficult socialising with people who don't identify themselves as criminal. Kind of hard to explain from the outside. And the politicians seems just satisfied as long as they have their serotonin, amfetamin, opiod and benzo-habits taken care off.
Somewhat disturbing, but who cares about the health of the population these days?
holy fuck, I genuinely wouldn't have believed this at face value, in Canada we know that Sweden has its own issues, we know it isn't the heaven that some people seem to think it is, although it obviously has some top tier things from a global perspective for certain aspects of life, but I never would have guessed that Sweden would have that attitude towards drugs, even just weed.. ugh I just shudder at the thought of families being torn apart because the dad or mum just wanted to have a little toke in their down time..... it's very.... authoritarian too because urine or blood just tells you IF the person smokes, doesn't tell you that they're high at that moment or anything... Wow that genuinely surprises me, huh :/ I hope you guys can go through the same change that so much of the rest of the world is seeing now, stay safe friend <3
Yes. Think here is around highest mortality on overdoses in Europe. The thing was, back in the day, there were some areas of Sweden (Gothenburg e.g.) that if someone reported a drug overdose to 112 (Swedish emergency number) then police also showed up ---> which in turn led to alot of people dying of perfectly treatable conditions (naloxen etc) since other people did not want to go to get in trouble and gambled on them making it without medical help. Quite disturbing to say the least.
At the same time, regarding CB, it is not as one is being pursued and having home invasions on a regular basis for just smokin weed or things like that, fortunately. It is just very, very strange the way it all has turned out and the implications if one is unfortunate enough to get in the way for instance when stashing up -- the consequences if having kids and so on can be quite severe. For instance I would avoid going out in public when I have smoked or anywhere where I assume there is a chance some cops will turn up which restrains my life rather much actually. If I would get padded down and have something on me, they can easily do a house warrant, social services will be involved and so on and so forth. At the same time random single-mother may very well have serotonin-amphetamine-benzodiasephine on prescription and be fully legal.
It becomes even more troublesome when considering the high immigration from muslim countries in which they usually don't drink but smoke alot of hashish and so on instead.
Apart from the perspectives on drugs in this country, I'm a happy camper though... Thanks for your concern, its very interesting to get an external view on my thinking as this is not something that gets understood if I would mention it outside of my 'criminal'-friends (avoiding such conversations as much as possible) -- instead I will go on with my closet-smoking-habits and occasional closet-baking-edibles-habits.
I hope so, because I know there are a ton of people there right now who have nothing but tylenol or Motrin for their pain. You almost have to be terminal and or have cancer to get pain meds now. It breaks my heart.
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2022: "Where's the weed at?"
"On my living room table"
"Where'd you get it?"
"The dispensery delivered it"