There are some board game cafes in the states. And some of those overlap with legal weed :) but smoking indoors in public is still a no-go
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These exist in some parts of California and Las Vegas. The ones in Vegas were all open within the last year or two AFAIK.
A bar near me has a few cocktails that use 5mg delta9 THC instead of alcohol.
All of their alcoholic drinks can also be upgraded with 5mg thc for a few bucks more.
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Should visit Amsterdam. They likely already have this
The issue is that a lot of people that smoke weed in place would reak. I don't think many people would enjoy the smell
Consumables only. Problem solved.
They've got this in Amsterdam but I would say it's less accessible than bars/alcohol generally due to how polluted the air gets (despite the best efforts of filtration)
Im every large city in the Netherlands btw.
The difference is you can't taste other people's alcohol but you can smell others' smoke
People who are going to a place to smoke typically wouldn’t mind that. Take cigar or vape lounges, for instance. Also it’s usually people who don’t smoke weed who act like the smell of weed bothers them.
right but my point is if a group of friends want to go to a bar and some people don't smoke or like the smell of smoke then there is a problem, it's not like they can just opt not to smell smoke
Then don’t go to a weed bar, I guess. Laws are unlikely to allow weed and alcohol in the same place any time soon… though that already happens illegally at concerts and many bars I’ve been to. But people at the bars usually smoke outside. Colorado gov’t acts like all hell would break loose if people smoke and drink at the same time.
...that's why you would only go to a place like that if everyone is down. Having them for people that want to go is fine, no one is forced to go.
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Dry vaporizers (with temperature below 200C, convection-based) don't have smoke so are a lot less offensive with smell, if not odorless particularly with access to fresh air.
Also people smelling of alcohol, particularly if they are drunk or drinking liquor, is definitely a thing. Also barfing. I wouldn't doubt bars having bad smells sometimes.
there are THC drinks where I live, always a nice option for me to have at gatherings as a non-alcohol person.
Right but you can consume cannabis in tons of different ways - cookies, cocktails, etc. Restaurants had smoking areas for decades with far worse air filtration systems.
Edibles might make it better. But then you'll need to give people something to do for an hour or so before it kicks in...
You mean like eating, playing board games, and socializing?
For the ones complaining of smell, Ill take the weed perfume over vomit dipped alcoholics any day.
As long as you don't stink. So fucking sick of weed users smelling like ass in public.
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that's just a "coffee" shop in Netherlands
If they had a place like that here, the cops would post up 24/7, DUI all day baby.
They don't post up around bars 24/7 and alcohol related dui's cause thousands of deaths a year.
Yea hmmm. I guess I have a really shitty opinion of my local cops. They know everyone, and I'd imagine the clientele at a weed bar would be the kind that's more favorable to fk with, for them. They do post up at MAT clinics for sure, and bust people cause they can get a free dui charge, plus jail time, in most instances, cause everyone's got records. I'd like to think by the time I see a weed bar we'd have some more changes as well. Drunk driving is bad.
There are a number of coffee shops exactly like that in Cape Town
Its hard to justify it for the same reasons we can't have Shisha bars and smoking lounges (at least where I live): 2nd hand smoke.
I can, as a non drinker, go to a bar and have myself a soda, and leave there as sober as when I walked in. If I do that in a room where everyone is smoking up, I will get high from the second hand smoke whether I want to for not.
I mean, why not just have a general social club with coffee/food, games, etc, and just step outside for a puff?
The smoke issue has been solved. I've been to cigar lounges that do not smell outside and barely smell inside, despite over a dozen people smoking sotgies in there. Massive HVAC systems and filters handle it all.
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Cannabis can be edible and here in Milwaukee we're already seeing farm bill delta9 show up in bars and restaurants.
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