Anytime someone compares those two, you can just point out that people aren't dependent on porn or gaming. That their bodies won't shock themselves to death if they go cold turkey.

The keyword being dependency. People use those interchangeably, but they're two medically distinct things and you usually have both to a drug, but not necessarily. You can be addicted and not dependent or dependent without addiction. The first one would be someone who still wants to use and dreams about it despite having had no substance for years, and the second one is for instance a long term pain patient who didn't even know what medication they were on but start shivering and getting nauseous as they forget to take their meds, despite them not having any psychological need to take them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_dependence

It's somewhat okay to use them interchangeably but it would be super rude to talk about how addicted to one's phone one is while someone is talking about having gone through actual substance use disorder, addiction, dependency and all.

Good job on pulling through man!

Nice to see you left it behind, congrats.

Yeah, it did, and does.

I'm speaking of common vernacular, not in medical terms. The common vernacular has changed over the years (as it always does).

Things without (and with) dependency are called addictions often, even "habits". I see it constantly in social media. The term "addiction" used to be much more limited.

If you don't believe me, feel free to consult a dictionary.

Medical terms are a different matter. Like the word "retarded", a word can mean one thing medically, and quite another in common parlance.

Your correction has been corrected.

The article's about Singapore.

Yes, I know. I can read the title just as I can read your comment saying "pretty much anywhere" and afterwards incredulously pointing out Singapore. Meaning your "anywhere" means actually anywhere, and not just "anywhere in Singapore." Last I checked "anywhere" did indeed contain Finland as well.

nd a kilo is not a small amount (unless you're a murican troll)

No I'm a person who's been growing weed for the past 20 years. I once had three large tents, hundreds of grams and more than two dozen plants taken from me. They didn't even try accusing me of a "felony", but the basic non-aggravated version of the crime. The production capability I had was about 400-500g/m2 and I had 2.49m2 of growing room plus my balcony. Kilo is a medium amount. It's not a small amount, no, but it's by no means a huge amount. It's one good harvest, grown in a couple of tents (or one really large one but I've never liked >1.2m tents) in an apartment building.

Are you aware of the distinction of de jure and de facto?

Because de jure we have quite draconian drug laws, but de facto you never go to prison for drugs unless you're dealing "harder" stuff and there's also violence/properly organised crime (which we don't have a lot of in the first place.)

For instance de jure I have all sorts of rights as a person. But de facto, I was literally tortured by the cops in a jail when they took my plants away. And they didn't even have a reason to put me in jail in the first place. None of my friends who've been caught growing have been taken to jail and the other time I got caught I didn't either.

Yet the cops kept me in an isolation cell with the lights constantly on while denying me my prescription medication while I went psychotic over three days and drew on the walls with my blood. And that mattress and blanket weren't there, they took them away and only put them back for the photo.

My point being ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS, even if some laws in other places are harsher than some.

But you said a kilo is "traffficking" almost anywhere. That's just not true. Especially in a lot of places you actually have to prove the trafficking or intent to traffic. For instance the cops asked me about my small plastic baggies, told them they're for freezing food. He laughed, obviously. They missed my scale, despite the fact it was literally right on the table next to my keyboard. But... if you look at the colour scheme it's not entirely unreasonable they missed it.

(and yes I need to clean ik)

But to add to that, they also missed a massive glass jar sitting on my kitchen table with almost a hecto of bud in it. Which was a nice surprise once I got home.

I ended up influencing Finnish law since the cops prevented me from filming them and I got that part on video (them taking my phone away saying "youre not allowed to film the police when they work") and it went all the way to the supremely court.

Anyways, I ramble, I'm aware. I'm not sorry about it though it's all related I just know most people can't handle lots of language and prefer shorter comments.