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Personally can't wait for the equivalent of Appellation d'origine contrôlée for weed. "It's not Champagne Double Cork Kush unless it comes from the Champagne region." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellation_d%27origine_contr%...
[Serious question (pot smoker myself)] Has there ever been a successful civilization that had incorporated use of cannabis in general society? I am not talking about some priestly caste using it for tripping, divining, or making up scripture, I mean like the use of alcohol which actually apparently was a key factor in emergence of urban civilizations. Related question is: do we know of any civilization that collapsed…
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In all fairness, it isn't like we want people to come as tourists here to smoke weed or something so should be fine no? For anyone else wanting to know more about the Dutch policy on this: https://www.government.nl/topics/drugs/toleration-policy-reg...
Quick question for our Dutch neighbors: why not? I never understood why it is exactly that The Netherlands were kind of against the drug tourism. I mean, I'm sure your average pot head tourist is not that much trouble and leaves quite a bit of money, no? I studied in The Netherlands and always thought I'd be proud as a country to be that "progressive" in a sense -- especially once it became clear that other countries…
It's a subset of the problem of overtourism in general.
I mean, I'm sure your average pot head tourist is not that much trouble and leaves quite a bit of money, no?
Actually they don't, and that's precisely the problem. They come over on EasyJet, check into a shitty hostel, score some weed, buy a shawarma (and maybe some fries), oggle the working professionals in the red light district for a bit, and then leave a few days later.
This is a stereotype of course and not 100 percent true -- but it also probably intersects about 60 percent with the spending profile of the average weed tourist. On average not usually the type to visit anything other than the most obvious tourist destinations, or patronize any of the better restaurants, or avail themselves to any of the amazingly cool stuff that city has to offer.
I think the legalization of cannabis in Europe has a lot of potential. I just wish that we would take measures to avoid the ever increasing levels of THC dosage in weed to insane levels, like you see in the US or California specifically. I firmly believe that cannabis can do a lot of good, but the poison is in the dosage. It has been shown in the past that increasing THC while decreasing CBD leads to an increase in n…
It’s a hard problem because any regulations increase cost to consumers and increase the likelihood that the black market still exists. The black market is alive and well in the U.S. where it is legal.
For things that are NOT in the process of being banned entirely, sin taxes may do more harm than good.
I think the legalization of cannabis in Europe has a lot of potential. I just wish that we would take measures to avoid the ever increasing levels of THC dosage in weed to insane levels, like you see in the US or California specifically. I firmly believe that cannabis can do a lot of good, but the poison is in the dosage. It has been shown in the past that increasing THC while decreasing CBD leads to an increase in n…
Standardization is a problem with decriminalized and illegal drugs.
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> They have alienated an awful lot of voters with their effective denial of reasonable covid measures they also won a number of sympathizers ... and "reasonable measures" - what a funny moment to write that nonsense.
> they also won a number of sympathizers LOL, they lost massively in all elections since the Bundestagswahl - mostly because of their disastrous performance during covid, with NRW's education minister Gebauer being the most obvious example. They may have gained some people from the AfD, but lost so much more instead. Basically the FDP is now learning the hard way what Söder's CSU learned after the clusterfuck in the…
The Netherlands will be especially impacted by this. We refused actual legalization for many reasons, many of which will be invalidated by Germany decriminalizing. Our current stance on weed is so confusing that it's hard to explain to any foreigner, but strictly speaking weed isn't legal and not even decriminalized... But yes, Amsterdam is in The Netherlands.
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> I'm sure your average pot head tourist is not that much trouble and leaves quite a bit of money, no? aha, they literally only come for weed and prostitutes, let's say it doesn't attract the most well behaved people in the world. Imagine the typical German or English 20 something years old tourist in Mallorca but instead of being drunk they're stoned. Low travel cost + mass tourism + young adults + drugs = problems.…
>Imagine the typical German or English 20 something years old tourist in Mallorca but instead of being drunk they're stoned. So they're sitting in cafes eating fried food? What exactly do you think stoned people do lol
I'm not Dutch and I really enjoy going to Amsterdam, have friends living there, etc. From what I gather those are the main complaints, just annoyances and not really major problems.
Financing criminals when these same tourists go searching for other drugs, that's a real issue.
Disclaimer: I don't believe that weed is a gateway drug and I'm very pro decriminalisation of drugs and legalisation of recreational cannabis.
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Oh, okay. Just confusion of terms. My brain organizes things as "beer, wine, and alcohol (aka spirits)" as opposed to "alcohol, including beer and wine". And an "alcoholic beverage" is just either a spirit alone or a spirit mixed with something. Probably because that's how my state organizes the stores (with wine/alcohol in separate stores from beer, so if you say "we need to buy beer" that means going to a different…
The unambiguous word in these situations is "liquor", at least in US English.
(FWIW I'm a native US English speaker.)
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The unambiguous word in these situations is "liquor", at least in US English.
I always thought "liquor" was stuff like Lemoncello and Amaretto. (FWIW I'm a native US English speaker.)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liqueur
> a usually sweetened alcoholic liquor (such as brandy) flavored with fruit, spices, nuts, herbs, or seeds
vs liquor
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liquor
> a usually distilled rather than fermented alcoholic beverage
see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amaretto
> an almond-flavored liqueur
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limoncello
> Limoncello (Italian pronunciation: [limonˈtʃɛlːo]) is an Italian lemon liqueur mainly produced in Southern Italy