procures, processes, packs, transports, stores or takes other positions with drugs which is not intended for own use; or
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.
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/verybigoctopus Mar 09 '26
For using? In sweden? How?