If anything, cannabis seems like a much better (and more profitable) drug around which to build a leisurely establishment.
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.
That sounds nice in theory, but in reality the result is usually that if the majority of a group smokes, the nonsmokers don’t have much of a choice except for looking for new friends. That was a very common complaint when smoking in pubs and restaurants was still legal here.
Just because one person doesn’t want to go to something doesn’t mean they shouldn’t exist. You’re basically saying one person’s opinion/choice outweighs an entire group. If those choices constantly put you at odds with the group it might be best to find a group that aligns with your values more. There’s also nothing wrong with being friends with the people that want to go to things you don’t like, just tag along when they do things you do like. You also don’t have to have one set of friends, you can have multiple groups that like to do different things. I’m not pro banning things for the sake of others that can choose not to participate.
That line of arguing is exactly why it doesn’t work. And in general I agree that banning things because someone else doesn’t like it is wrong, getting rid of smoking wherever possible is better for everyone, including the smokers.
For what it’s worth, pretty much everyone here in Austria agrees that the ban on smoking in indoor establishments was a good thing. It’s just so much better to come home from a night out and not reek like smoke so badly that everything you touch will smell for days.
Well if low THC vapes and flower carts become common enough, we could see it become much more socially acceptable over time.
The problem is how to shift public perception of it as an anti-social behaviour towards a more acceptable vice that doesn’t necessarily have to affect others good time
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t drink. I would be completely isolated from my friend group if i wasn’t allowed to go to the pub with them and not drink alcohol. It would be unfair for them to force them now and again to have a dry night out to appease me.
Now if the place only sold edibles or had like a vape lounge area, that could work a bit better.
and drunk people can be annoying and it is hard to opt out of being around them at the bar
Well you would go to an alcohol bar. There’s more than enough of those already.
You can certainly smell other people’s alcohol. Most pubs reek of cheap beer
Some establishments yes, but in most places I would not smell alcohol unless someone spilled it all over the floor. It’s anyway much less compared to smoke that will stick to your clothes
The thing is, you don’t get intoxicated by the smell of alcohol. I am incredibly sensitive to THC, and just contact high can make me not feel well.
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?
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.
Thanks for the shameless plug opportunity for m/dryherbvapes!
Yep that’s the 21st Century way to party. Smoking tastes almost disgusting after making the switch.
Bars could have bar-top vape systems and you could bring your own plant materials or buy there, but you would probably have to buy a disposable nozzle for the vape systems. Each patron could use a clean disposable tip for their visit to minimize germs.
Depending on the the vaporizer tech, I could see BYOB (and a bit of auto-cleaning or just provided qtips etc) being a thing. Meaning bag, bowl, or…
Also personally I have my own mini-“pipe” that I carved, the balloon bag slots into it and it has a carb hole for air-mixing (also it can fit the direct draw/whip mouthpiece into it too, diff orientation). So it’s a personal mouthpiece.
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.
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Dutch coffee shops, you mean?
One or two every block in the old city center.
That’s the trend I wish would emerge in the U.S.: lots of small spaces to hang out in like that
I’m trying so hard not to go on my /c/fuckcars rant right now.
“the” old city center 🙂 The Netherlands is quite a bit bigger than the Amsterdam tourist trap 😁
You can still do it in most city centres thougg. Just with a much lower density of coffee shops.
I was about 20 minutes into a documentary about Dutch coffee shops when i finally figured out what they were on about!
that’s just a “coffee” shop in Netherlands
Yeah I did this exact thing often in my early 20s.
and many are actually cozy, comfortable places. and no bachelorette parties!
This is quite common in The Netherlands. They’re called coffeeshops.
They are usually not very cozy though since they are barely legal and they don’t want to get too much attention.
Some coffeeshops have men with purple hats standing in front, essentially advertising the place. Not to mention all the big signs saying this is a coffeshop, with customers sitting outside on benches and smoking weed in plain sight. It’s definitely possible to find coffeeshops with boardgames, although they are not very popular, since I guess most tourists aren’t into that, and most locals can just smoke and play boardgames at home.
Since I’m getting downvoted here: what I wrote is based on my experience in the Zuid Holland region. It might be different in other places of the Netherlands.
That’s already a reality in some places. San Francisco, New York, and Amsterdam are some examples.
One can find a ‘coffee shop’ in nearly any city in the Netherlands. The first was Mellow Yellow in Amsterdam. They opened in 1972. From that point the formula they had, (by selling the cannabis themselves instead of the 60s, dealers hanging around in a bar who would often sell hard drugs as well), spread slowly around the Netherlands into the coffee shop culture we have today. Couple of years later in '75 our government started decriminalizing soft drugs. Early 80s a tolerance policy was set up, so coffee shops were still illegal, but could go about their busyness freely if no involvement with selling hard drugs.
I would love to visit the Netherlands someday. I’ve only been to the airport lol
Add Spain to the list.
Some medical dispensaries even had this vibe years ago.
I went to one in Thailand. Got to borrow a bong and play billiards and Uno and stuff, it was a real nice and comfortable little place
Your dealers home: Am I a joke to you?
Dealer? What’s a dealer? Is that something I’m too Canadian to understand?
It’s the guy with weed 30-40% less expensive than the guv’mint stores that also happens to be better quality 9/10 times.
(I kid to a point - I use dispensaries too, because what’s not to like about picking up weed AND milk on a mini-mall grocery run - but seriously the market value for unregulated weed has plummeted something fierce since legalization. And what I’ve tried is pretty damn good).
Eh depends on the province. Ontario is great. Quebec did a characteristically Quebec thing by saying that cannabis products couldn’t be “appealing”, so now they literally sell cannabis cauliflower and these gross granola bar-like things. Does way more harm than good, but they won’t hear it.
That was the cool place 20+ years ago, not so much now.
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?
Cannabis can be edible and here in Milwaukee we’re already seeing farm bill delta9 show up in bars and restaurants.
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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They also still allow smoking in casinos in Vegas because they don’t want to lose those addicts as customers. The amazing HVAC systems in casinos was part of why they were able to open back up so fast.
You can have a smoking area, just like many restaurants used to. The non smoking area can still serve other THC infused products.
I’ve always thought this too. It’s so crazy how acceptable alcohol use is compared to cannabis use when it comes to socializing for things like work.
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
They just need a backyard balcony/ patio. I’m sure plenty of people would stick to edibles indoors also.
I haven’t been to one but how do hookah bars work? Wouldn’t a “weed bar” work just the same?
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.
In theory you could just do cocktails/edibles and have a smoking area.
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.
Which bar??? Please link if you can, I travel quite a bit and I would genuinely go there.
I know of one in indy: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=indianapolis+dab+bar&ia=web&iaxm=places
I believe there are two cannabis bars here in Indy. Unfortunately, Indiana isnt a legal state, so I’m just waiting for Holcomb et al to close the loopholes they currently have 😭
California has a few of these and they’re awesome! Ive seen them in Humboldt county and LA
Definitely sounds like something that would be in Humboldt.
Bay Area guy here. We have quite a few cannabis lounges.
Got any favorites?
Barbary Coast downtown for vibe is a good start
There have been a few private clubs in Colorado that allow this. It tends to be bring-your-own but you can smoke and do whatever once inside after buying a membership. Apparently they’re opening more official places called consumption lounges - one is opening on Colfax in Denver soon, apparently.
I hadn’t heard about that, looks like they’re just waiting to get the ventilation/HVAC approved. Might have to a check Cirrus out when they open.
Apparently the “Coffee Joint” was able to open and allow dabbing and electronic vaping inside without needing to meet the same HVAC requirements.Most people I know would be perfectly fine with only dabs and vaping. A lot of people consider actual herbal weed somewhat obsolete.
