More people should do that. This will help create reasonable drug laws better than the laws we currently have in most countries, too many of which are based on ideology, fiction and religious moral attitudes.
Because unless you are an author who gets famous and writes about using drugs all the time and practically nothing else[1] no one except the police care. Everyone over 30 knows that every professional workplace has habitual coke users, that a large majority of artists/musicians/art teachers/bar tenders/chefs are currently or were previously users of weed or LSD.
MDMA will probably be regularly used for psycholytic therapy within the next decade and likely see legalization in the same cities that're legalizing psychedelics right now. It has a lot of potential for treating PTSD, trauma and anxiety, and most of the danger is around impure pressings, exhaustion, water toxicity, etc.
Personally, it helped me a lot with learning how to open up to and trust people. I used to think I was an introvert, but I really just had severe social anxiety from a difficult upbringing.
Indeed, arguably the biggest risk from taking ecstasy is because it is illegal and therefore has a higher potential to be cut with substances that are much more likely to cause users harm.
"Minor drug related crimes, like own use of illegal drugs, provides only a daily fine but means that the person ends up in the Police records."
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"In 2004, Sweden had 84 people per 100,000 in either prison or remand prison. This is less than the average for the OECD (132 people per 100,000) and much less than the number for the United States (725 per 100,000)."
> I'd say that whatever they're doing, it seems to be fairly effective.
It's a police state with an ongoing alcohol prohibition, tremendous amount of road blocks in the capital and night club bouncers having to have basic police training. Compared to Estonia where there's almost no cops visible, no no-go zones and very little crime - Sweden isn't doing that well.