Am I the only one who feels a slight discomfort reading this article?

 (In Swedish)

http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/jonkoping/nyheter/artikel.asp?Artikel=2447034

What it all comes down to is that the police and the customs should have the right to seize substances that are not illegal. The criteria to seize a substance is instead to be changed to "considered as hazardous to your health", but it doesn't have to be illegal. I agree that some dangerous substances, such as GHB and cocaine, should be fought to get off the streets, but to have THE RIGHT to seize a legal substance from an individual, yes a legal substance.

Let's consider an example: In Sweden, there's a kind of tobacco called "snus", which you put under your lip. Snus is to my knowledge illegal  in every other country in the world. Swedish police would never dream of seizing someone's snus, because it is accepted here.

If they are going to seize everything hazardous, then they could just start closing down every bar in the whole country, and take away peoples cigarettes on the streets.

This proposal is to be presented in december, and I feel like the government is telling us: "Well, it's not illegal, but we still can't allow you to use it".

With the FRA and IPRED-laws just around the corner, it seems to me that the so called "1984-scenario" is EXACTLY what the people currently in power is setting into motion. We are moving closer to a society where personal freedoom no longer exists, and I don't  want to live in this country  when that day comes