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| Title: | All about Scandinavia |
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| Moderator: | TLE::SAVAGE |
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| Created: | Wed Dec 11 1985 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 603 |
| Total number of notes: | 4325 |
481.0. "Possession/sale of narcotic drugs" by TLE::SAVAGE () Tue Sep 03 1991 13:53
From: [email protected] (H. Peter Anvin, N9ITP)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: drugs
Date: 2 Sep 91 16:56:04 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
In article <[email protected]> of soc.culture.nordic,
[email protected] (Lars-Henrik Eriksson) writes:
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> Using drugs (except for alcohol and nicotine, of course....) is
> neither legal nor socially acceptable in the Scandinavian countries.
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> (Well strictly speaking, I believe *using* drugs is legal in Sweden,
> but any kind of handling of drugs is illegal. I believe this fine
> distinction is made so that drug addicts can seek help without having
> to fear prosecution.)
>
Not anymore. This anomaly in the Swedish Narcotic Drugs Act was
removed three-four years ago; I still believe that a drug user who
seeks treatment is usually not punished. HOWEVER, sale and
*possession* of drugs is and has always been a serious legal offense.
It is also significantly *less* socially acceptable in Sweden than in
the USA to "do drugs"... it immediately identifies you as a social
outcast.
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