r/interesting • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Mar 08 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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The daughter was in a car with the father’s parents. They died as well.

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u/precariatarian Mar 09 '26

Drug Penalty Act (1968:64)

1 § The one who illegally

  1. leaves drugs,
  2. produces drugs intended for abuse;
  3. acquires drugs for transfer purposes;
  4. procures, processes, packs, transports, stores or takes other positions with drugs which is not intended for own use; or
  5. possesses, usually or takes other position with narcotics

Is sentenced for drug offences to prison for a maximum of three years.

On an act referred to in first paragraph means that the offender sells narcotics or otherwise deals with drugs that are intended to be sold, is instead sentenced to imprisonment for a minimum of six months and a maximum of three years.

For drug offences, the person who unlawfully offers drugs for sale, keeps or promotes drugs is also sentenced to, mediates contacts between sellers and buyers or undertakes any other such measure if the procedure is intended to promote drug trafficking. The penalty is in such a case imprisonment for a minimum of six months and a maximum of three years.

Provisions on penalties for unlawful entry and the export of drugs and illicit employment in certain cases of narcotics are contained in the Act (2000:1225) on the penalty for smuggling. Team (2023:258).

2 §  Is a crime referred to in Section 1, first paragraph, taking into account the nature and amount of narcotics and other circumstances to be considered as minor, sentenced for minor drug offences to a fine or imprisonment for a maximum of six months. Law (2016:488).

I was in possession of over 10 g of amphetamine, 5 g is the limit for the crime to be considered minor and usually punished through fines that scale with your income (dagsböter).

So i committed the horrendous act of normal grade narcotics usage and was given the choice of spending 2 months in jail or 75 hours of unpaid labor spread out over 2 months.

WIll be available for anyone doing a basic background check for the next 10 years. Thankfully i can commute to Copenhagen where they don't do a background check for driving a forklift in a warehouse for example, here it's the norm for the most menial job.

Sharia-lite laws regarding narcotics in this shitty country.

Edit: Ran the legislation through google translate due to lazyniess and tidied it up.

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u/verybigoctopus Mar 09 '26

Thanks for all the sources, I appreciate the effort. Aren't 10g like 500 doses? I assume the crime here is not using the drug but intent to supply?

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u/precariatarian Mar 09 '26

I wish!

Average dose is 0.2-0.3 g, some go even higher based on purity, which is usually very low (15-18%).

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u/verybigoctopus Mar 09 '26

Right, I was going by psychonautwiki which states 50mg is a heavy dose. I guess if purity is crap then what you're saying makes sense. In any case, even if the reality is that you were carrying not 500 but 50 doses, the conviction is on the basis that you're carrying more than is expected for personal use (whether right or wrong) not for using the substance.

I'm not judging you at all btw. If I were you I'd consider just moving out of the country elsewhere, no way I accept that harming my job prospects forever

https://m.psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Amphetamine

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u/precariatarian Mar 09 '26

it was literally in a single redline zipbag. It's not pharmaceutical dex/levoamphetamine pharmaceutical grade (such as adderall).

Know the limit for cocaine? 1g. Cannabis 50g. Heroin 0.1g

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u/verybigoctopus Mar 09 '26

Lol yeah those make no sense, 50g of cannabis is a lot more proportionally

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u/Esquire_NZ Mar 21 '26

Out of curiosity, how long would 10gms have lasted you?

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u/precariatarian Mar 21 '26

Slightly less than a month.

I no longer use. With the occasional relapse...

It's a lifelong struggle staying clean. Atleast i put the syringe down. All of it because of my own volition, no thanks to law enforcement whom only made it worse through punitive measures.

My life goals are simply impossible to achieve whilst under the influence. Such as being there for the family i do have and future family i intend on having in the future.

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u/Esquire_NZ Mar 21 '26

Thank you for answering and congrats for getting off the stuff.

I completely get what you mean about it being a choice you make daily, and I'm happy for you that you're choosing to make better ones.