A Drug-free Sweden: By All Means? [Sub: ENG, HUN, RUS]

[GoldenChantarelle]

Even in Iran they have needle exchange programs but not in oh so liberal Sweden. It's a big shame, all major parties, all parties in the parliament write that they are against harm reduction methods in their party programs.

[GoldenChantarelle]

I'm in sweden, I have just decided last week to seriously start going off opiates and the sleeping pill zolpidem.

I'm so fucking scared of getting caught with drugs in this country. A significant proportion of the population are completely brainwashed when it comes to drugs here, and extremely judgemental when it comes to lifestyle. Luckily I don't inject and luckily I found a very good addiction doctor who will help me get off drugs in a safe way.

[evionify]

Thank you for making this. Swedish drug policy is a disaster. Henrik Tham, thank you for speaking up.

[mg03nma]

Let the people who want a drug free sweden have it, as long as they give land to people who don't want to take part in their moralizing laws and propaganda shit.

[FereMunduzTV]

Well how many who have seen this video disagrees that criminalizing sports and drugs like cannabis is the same? Feel shame to live in the country of Sweden. . .

It's our lack of knowledge and the swarm of lies that has been going thru the older generations heads have brainwashed them into believing that cannabis and heroin have the same damage effect and that if you start smoking weed, you'll end up as a heroin user. . . I mean COME ON!

Legalize it, DON'T CRITICIZE IT!

[HybridD91]

@FereMunduzTV Some people do end up on other drugs after smoking weed.

[Quasi84]

Den som dör av överdos av illegala substanser får skylla sig själv.

Jag sörjer inte när en pundare dör av överdos. Där emot så ska vi hjälpa dem att bli fri från skiten. Cannabis är mindre farligt och mindre beroendeframkallande än tobak och har dessutom medicinska effekter vilket tobak helt saknar. Jag vill INTE legalisera cannabis. Gissa vad jag vill...

[TDrudley]

@Quasi84 Göra allt olagligt?

Hoppas inte det, det vore ju an ingen puckat.

[freshmoehoe]

legalisera cannabis

[edwardnr17]

"One kid out of a hundred who's a regular smoker" jo men! Vet typ 7 stycken bara i min klass som röker på rasterna, utdaterad statistik eller bullshit.

[MrDilliption]

Lets smoke some weeeeeeeeeeeiheeed

[Swealbino92]

Im ashamed of our politicians in Sweden, the way they completely refuse to treat drug users with any kind of respect and dignity. it is all based on a ridiculous lutheran moralism that shoudnt be forced upon other people in a country that would call itself free. If it was under a banner of faschism i would let it go becouse of the honesty!

[flatwoundtickler]

"I don't see any problem with human rights...human rights in a restrictive policy.It's a..it's a..No,it's no problem." I'm very ashamed of my native country Sweden.People die because they can't get treatment,and if they tell the social workers they use drugs,they report it to the police...Therefore are they shut out of our system.Many citizens,police officers,politicians,people who work in the Anti drug propaganda machine are moral fascists. I got tired of the moral fog,I moved to another place

[Pew420]

1:28 - 1:40

Ofcourse we say we have never tried, if we would tell the truth you would force us to have sex with you or you would call the cops on us and they would shove their hands up our ass... That's SWEDEN! :D

[D4NCETUBE]

I am gonna stop smoking cannabis when Beer is illegal!

[Gravez0r]

"A drug free society.. and then i mean from illicit drugs..." but getting yourself shitfaced on alcohol is completly fine?

Take one smoke on one night should be illegal... but not to drink a couple of bottles of whine a saturday evening.

[GreyAutumn]

The guy from RNS brought up his past use of motorcycles. Well, I think that:

MC Helmets = Harm Reduction

Criminalizing Motorcycles = "Zero Tolerance"

And since he's not in favor of harm reduction, he should stay consequentially be in favour of criminalizing motorcycles because they're deadly and psychologically addictive!

[Baalsaack]

@sergejzr and others

I recommend reading "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley or "The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience" by Robert Masters, Ph.D. and Jean Houston, Ph.D. Both can be found online. That is if you want to see how different the effects of some psychoactive drugs can be from what you probably imagine, i.e. alcohol-like numbness and disconnection from the world.

[sergejzr]

You are very lucky in Sweden to have such clear drug polcy. The problem is that the government thinks that this is all they have to do. hard drug policy is a nessecary condition for drug free society, but not sufficient enough without other steps.

[Baalsaack]

@sergejzr There is no such thing as a drug free society. Never was and never will. Why would you even want one?

[sergejzr]

@Baalsaack Depends on a definition. There will be always an amount of people who will use drugs (if I am right 3%-6% of the population). It is impossible to reduce under this limit, but it is possible to stay within. Why I would want a drug free society? Do you have own chidren? I have and I don't want them to get into the situation where drugs are considered as anything close to normal (like it is in Netherlands).

[Baalsaack]

@sergejzr Yet they are normal. Humans have always used endogenous substances to alter consciousness. We do it legally with alcohol now, but it doesn't differ from using cannabis or many other drugs. Except for some of them being more addictive (heroin, cocaine), some less (cannabis, MDMA) and some not addictive at all (LSD).

[Baalsaack]

@sergejzr Sorry, I meant exogenous. Endogenous are the ones produced by our own bodies :) And by "always" I do mean always - even in prehistoric times. There's nothing unnatural about getting high, just as there is nothing unnatural about masturbating, even though society would have told you otherwise in the past centuries.

[sergejzr]

@Baalsaack You probably know, how epidemical drugs like opium could be widespread even despite the official resistance. Such drugs were known and not forbidden for thousands of years. But we do still exist. It is just because drug was never concidered normal. The people were afraid using drugs and junkees were considered as mad. Unfortunately nowerdays it is not like this anymore. Moreover we got more and more (also legal) drug advertisment through the media.

[Baalsaack]

@sergejzr It depends on the culture you're talking about. In Asia smoking opium was considered normal in past times. In Europe alcohol consumption was normal, too. Yet when Europeans brought alcohol to Americas, the natives couldn't handle it. Just as Europeans can't handle opiates. Native Americans, on the other hand, used hallucinogenic drugs, like peyote, or chewed stimulating coca leaves. Your idea that drug use was never accepted is totally wrong.

To be continued (characters limit).

[Baalsaack]

@sergejzr You also seem to be treating "drugs" as one category, whereas there are many types of psychoactive substances, all very different in their effects and associated dangers. There's no question about addictive properties of opiates and harm they can cause to society, but talking about heroin and LSD as a one category is deeply flawed. A world of heroin users would be a worse place, a world of LSD users - probably much better. MDMA, cannabis - again, should be considered separately.

[Baalsaack]

@sergejzr Why would we have died out? Psychedelic drug use has formed the basis of entire civilisations in both Americas. While they have died out, it was mostly because of Europeans and, if any drug, alcohol. Massive alcohol consumption has, on the other hand, done little damage to European civilisation over the past thousands of years.

[sergejzr]

@Baalsaack: There was no such thing as "massive alcohol consumption" in the past. at least not in the dimensions that we have now. Alcofol was expensive and there was never plenty of food (that is needed to make alco). With the industrialization aclo became cheap and like any other drug it could be sold with a big benefit. Nowerdays europeans do die out and one of the reasons (even if not the main one) is drug usage and amoung them alcohol is on the first place.

[xGAMINGFREAKx]

As Tejbz would say "to the face,to the face"

[Ast1337]

DONT DO DRUGS!..weed is not a drug though.

[billieholiday42]

@Ast1337 THC is a drug.

[Xaeron187]

A nice little short-film documentary :)

Drug free sweden; by all means. Ban sugar, alcohol, tobacco, many of the medicins that are available today. Or at the least, ban sugar, alcohol and tobacco, the potentially deadly drugs. There are many illegal drugs in sweden today that are a lot less harmful, if at all, than say sugar and caffeine. We dont need a drug free vision in sweden, we need a realistic drug vision.

[idiotjim]

they are killing the 'knarkare' with their fantasies. its horrible,help us.(knarkare are the word used to dehumanifie these ppl so no one react when they are treated sad bad.)

[Scorpitarios]

Blindly following the law is bs! Just remember the race laws of former Nazi Germany. The nature of the drug laws are totally comparable to these or the medieval heresy laws as well as the witch hunts. The war on drug users is a modern form of witch hunt, and therefore constitutes a violation of human rights and civil liberties and even a crime against humanity.

[Mehlin87]

@Scorpitarios Finally.....thnk you!

[artoscope]

@hansson214 valFRIHET

[thrust7rock]

....listen to the old one with hair.....Han är klok

[BadassMMA]

My 2 cents. It´s ignorant and retarded to compare marijuana and hash with drugs like heroine and cocaine. Marijuana is less harmful than other drugs and alcohol and caffeine. You can read studies about that on different sites. From my own experiences alcohol is much more harmful than hash and marijuana.

[TheSHAMROCK08]

@BadassMMA

Second that!

[andregs2]

oh my god den här måste vara fett gammal.. hälften av alla som jag känner röker o de fan mer än 7%

[WeeMan08]

1 person av alla jag känner röker, det är fan mindre än 7%.. Dumma jävel. Är hela sveriges människor dina kompisar eller?

[andregs2]

@WeeMan08 jahaa vart kmr du ifrån då norrland ?.. där alla sitter i skogen och dricker norrlands guld.. dumma jävel kom till förorten o lär dej känna folk där så kmr du fatta och tror du dom här jävla nötterna vet allt om skitet helt seriöst.. dom ljuger bara för o visa sej vara smarta och kanske för dom får fast dom flästa pundarna i sergel (Plattan) om du nu vet vart de är

[WeeMan08]

Hahaha.. Nej jag bor i Stockholm, men umgås inte med lowlifes som du bara. Ditt inlägg visar ju bara hur intelligensbefriad du är, du kan ju inte ens stava ordentligt. Märks ju att du är en jävla loser som aldrig kommer få ett vettigt jobb. Men visst, knarka på :)

[andregs2]

@WeeMan08 och om jag inte kan få som du tänker men jag förstår inte varför folk alltid ska va på top, tönt

[WeeMan08]

Helvete, du kan ju inte ens formulera en mening korrekt så man kan förstå dig.

[andregs2]

@WeeMan08 de för du e så trög

[WeeMan08]

Du har fortfarande inte lyckats stava en mening korrekt. Ge upp nu din jävla pundare.

[andregs2]

@WeeMan08 haha vad ska jag ge upp på? tönt... och vad är det du förväntar dej att jag ska skriva ? okej jag skrev de och jag vet de stavar det men vafan de är internet man brukar inte skriva korrekt heller jävla homosexuella snobb

[kingazzaman]

I am 40 years old. I used drugs for 23 years - mostly marijuana, ecstacy, alcohol and occassionally some powders like coke and speed.

About a year ago, I decided I wanted a clear head so i could write creativley, do a little better in my career, and hopefully live a little longer - so i stopped using all drugs.

Prohibition is a stupid thing. I honestly think that if drugs had not been illegal, I wouldn't have found them so fascinating

Portugal's approach has been clever and effective.

[korewananidesukayo]

It's intersting that while Swedish youth have supposedly had the least contact with drugs (as opposed to their OECD counterparts) there are more cases of unintentional suicide via drug overdosage amongst the adult population. One possible explanation is that the majority of potential deaths happen at an earlier age, as widespread drug use is common amongst OECD youth. I guess then you could say that Sweden is close to being drug free society merely through the lenses of statistics.

[juzu4me]

Is drug use out of control in sweden?

[dimz00r]

Yeah i would say so.. I live in the northern region of sweden, a pretty small town.. like the last 5 years we have had about 5-8 ppl that have died from overdosages.. And this town aaaint big..

Where is sweden headed?? And I dont even want to start talking about the politicians, talking big words and acting like fucking communists!

[hansson214]

"a lot of people wanna follow the law"

do we have any options?

[Metatheist]

awesome swenglish

[RICHbrowngrow02]

perhaps you should see the video "morales is chewing coca"hahaha

btw

thank you ugly whites drug addicts thank u so very much for make us rich,

keep spending your money in our drugs and then die of overdose please hahahaha

[FistsOfFury21]

Marijuana is not a drug other then that I agree drugs are horrible and they can ruin a society just look at my country the USA we have the largest amount of drug users in the world and we are a cultural mind-fuck, a ass backwards country that is falling like Rome.

[Mazze122]

And that is linked to use of drugs or just a failed political system?

[FistsOfFury21]

A combination of everything, bad education, failed political system, drugs, greed and self righteousness, etc.

[Mazze122]

If you look at the use of drugs and what drug is most comman you will see that the use of cannabis is much higher than anyone, but still you can link no crimes other than possession, growing, selling and use of marijuana.

So that the use of drugs is causing the problems of "cultrul mind-fucks" as you put in the USA is not the problem more than that the political problems is more than likely to be consequences of the prohibition and war on drugs.

[FistsOfFury21]

I agree to an extent but crackheads, methheads, and heroin addicts are drains on society wether it is legal or illegal.

[thirdattempt]

so are fat people. should we ban food too?

[andregs2]

@thirdattempt yes they do it soon i guess hahaha they have try to ban mcdonalds so why not all fat food those stupit country have watch too much movies so they think they are like superman or something

[Mehlin87]

@FistsOfFury21

Maybe youre right, but we have the same rights to live in peace like any body else.

[Deathlordtwo]

@FistsOfFury21 Its not really the drugs doing the damage. Its the compounding of drugs being illegal and the stigma it brings. We don't have the worlds largest prison population for nothing.

[tigerone1970]

"We have the goal of a drugfree society" the problem is, that he is 'holding' right now. Serotonin, for instance. Also, alcohol and nicotine are drugs too.

And by the way, the hallucinogen Ibogaine is very effective in getting people off addiction (including to heroin).

[malteserule]

RICHbrowngrowl02-FUCK U latin americans are scum of the fucking earth there up there with terrorists,u guys are no better then them u dirty mother fuckers u work for cheaper then shit,u prolly would work for my shit so go mow my lawn and ill give u a nice giant piece of my shit.next to working for shit u also work for pennys an hour HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[RICHbrowngrow02]

hahaha are you angry bcuz that i said before about whites it's truth u ugly white drug addict low life hahhahaha

WHITES ARE A JOKE FOR US

[malteserule]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA but atleast i pay ur kind my shit to mow my lawn HAHAHAHAHA i shit in there mouth lol and latin americanas dont bring drugs over here some do but blacks have the best (no offense to anybody thats black) u ever hear of mexican brick weed LMFAO that shit sucks donkey dick but then again ur kind sucks donkey dick so u guess it works for u

[acrylamidX]

Herregud vilken dålig engelska alla har, ni borde bett dem snackat svenska och översatt till engelska istället.

[choomanfoo]

Notice which one of the commentators can keep his head straight. The prohibitionist clearly has trouble believing his own arguments.

[buddyorville]

Big Brother please save me for I can not be held responsible for myself nor my children.

I've been through years of treatment at a methodone clinic and I took full responsibility for myself, didn't ask or need anyone to help me, I just did what I knew I was best for myself and quit.

We should have one country where people who feel they need to be treated as a child can move. They should feel more comfortable knowing all the decisions have been made for them.

Sky divers not welcome.

[TeeDee887]

Great vid.

[QzurK]

great video

[HaileISela]

thank you for this very good video!

[ruukaoz]

Wearing helmet is harm reduction.

[Skymning]

Yeah, the zero policy would be like... Making it illegal to use a motorcycle or a bicycle.

[ruukaoz]

OH MAN!!!! So that bald guy understands the importance of the helmet, but if we use drug policies on motorcycling, they would say, don't ride the bike, because its illegal. And you can hurt yourself and others. (With drugs you can only hurt yourself so WTF). I'm so sad, that these people make drug laws. I'm so sad and so angry!

[UberCletus]

@ruukaoz

Telling you to wear a helmet is like saying "don't smoke a joint without a filter" or something like that, not saying "Don''t use drugs, or you will be forced to take a leak in front of an officer!". That guy is a silly, silly man.

[ruukaoz]

nagyon érdekes, de angol felirat jó lenne... kicsit gyűrik a svédek az angolt. :)

[HunCivLibUnion]

Kedves ruukaoz,

Raktunk a filmhez angol feliratot, nemsokára kész a magyar is. Köszönjük az észrevételt!

TASZ

[ExzessivDasMagazin]

superb! thanx a lot! we need this information!