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i know the US has a few states that legalize marijuana but what about Europe? Are they under strict policy?
It's pretty much legal in the Netherlands (gedogen), but really if you just ask university students in any European country you should be able to get some.
Not in Italy but use is so widespread that they might as well make it legal at this point (source, smoked it yesterday last time ), they would get much in the way of revenue off of organized crime and boost economy given that most of the weed is illegally imported from the mountains and hills of Albania where organized crime has a deal with most local officials.
Legality and approach to weed in general vary drastically. In Portugal for example, it's completely decriminalized and unless you carry around bulk quantities, the worst thing you can get is a small fine. In the UK, it's not legal and you could get in trouble, but from what I heard cops know better than to harass people about it.
And then there is Poland, where you can get up to 3 years of jail time for possession of the smallest amount, and the cops won't let it go as they are filling their quotas of arrests and "are making the streets safe", at least on paper, in official statistics.
Do your research for each country separately, all I'm saying.
It's pretty much legal in the Netherlands (gedogen), but really if you just ask university students in any European country you should be able to get some.
Here you go find out what you want I gotta no clue even I live here because I am not a smoker either drinker so don't forget to put your hat in-front of you if you smoke and fell on the road. people throuw money to the hat when they see that.
I think our country handles it completely the wrong way. To other people it might sound great that it is almost legal in the NL but the whole "gedogen" policy still causes a lot of trouble for a lot of people.
"Gedogen" doesn't mean it's legal, it means it's tolerated but still officially illegal. Because of this the whole weed industry is still in hands of criminal organisations and the coffeeshops are still forced to do business with criminals to buy their weed.
A lot of money goes around in the weed business and from time to time there is a kind of a "war" between crime groups, fighting over power in the "weed world". That goes with executions in the streets (mostly in Amsterdam and Rotterdam), car bombs and even bombings of coffeeshops, as we've seen in Eindhoven years ago.
All this is completely unnecessary because when it would be completely legalized, the shops could have plantations and grow big amounts to sell. Or farmers could switch to growing Marihuana and that way have more income and more different crops to grow. Also it could be taxed (the shops are taxed but not the illegal growers). And crime groups would loose their grip on the weed busines.
I'm not a weed smoker btw, but I find it a scandal that our government still keeps this stuff in the underworld.
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), they would get much in the way of revenue off of organized crime and boost economy given that most of the weed is illegally imported from the mountains and hills of Albania where organized crime has a deal with most local officials.
people throuw money to the hat when they see that.
