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Singaporean man executed for importing cannabis (www.straitstimes.com)

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[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The cannabis seized from Omar is sufficient to feed the addiction of about 144 abusers for a week.

What the hell is up with this bizarre line in the article? "Addiction"? "Abusers"? Is the the article writer fucking serious with this Reefer Madness shit? What a god damn clown.

[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As someone who has smoked weed for nearly 10 years now, it is addictive and can be abused.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"addiction" used to mean physical withdrawals... now it means weed, television, working out, phones, sex, and more.

Weed withdrawal is milder than caffeine withdrawal for most people.

With 10 being death from withdrawal (like from alcohol), on a scale of 1 to 10 cannabis is a 1.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, when I had a heroin addiction it kind of used to piss me off when people would talk about addictions to porn and stuff. I'd think they had no idea what addiction really meant. Try going cold turkey from smack. But TBF even though maybe the word addiction doesn't apply in the same way, it's certainly true that any compulsive behaviour that's detrimental to your life is a problem that needs help.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Nice to see you left it behind, congrats.

[-] rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

It's an Asian outlet. They never really had much sympathy for them.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

Those hopeless addicts are consuming a bit over 3 grams of weed per week. Definite threat to society there.

And of course the guy being executed is not from the Chinese elite, he's a Singaporean Malay.

[-] Lemmyme@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

No, 1009.1g divided by 144 potheads is 7g. So the article assumes they are smoking a gram a day each. There should be protests about this, and I think the author of this article should be fired, it's so insensitive.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Regardless... that's enough to be considered trafficking pretty much everywhere... and he did it in Singapore?! Nice Darwin Award.

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