• EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Is Antarctica really “unknown”? The closest there is to antarctic law would be international treaties and they are mostly about nuclear weapons and oil drilling.

    I feel like if you are willing to live in a frozen hellscape you should be able to smoke whatever you want

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      6 months ago

      Since there isn’t a legal structure it falls in the default ‘unlnown’ category because legality doesn’t apply.

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    6 months ago

    Mexico is wrong. Supreme Court approved to make it legal in 2021 but no laws have been written (and it doesn’t work like in the US were the SCOTUS makes it legal automatically)

    • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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      It is very limited though. I would consider Germany more on the decriminalized side.

      You are allowed to own a small amount. You are allowed to grow up to three plants at home. It is illegal to buy, sell, or import.

      There is rules for having cannabis social clubs similiar to Spain, but the rules around them are quite complex and a lot of it remains unclear, until the law will have been interpreted in court decisions.

      Some German states have already announced that they will make life hell for anyone smoking weed in legal public spaces or operating a legal cannabis social club. Also the level of permittable THC for driving is still undecided.

      Currently any level of blood THC is considered a DUI and can not only get you a fine, but also a suspension of your drivers licencse with an extensive “medical psychological check up” if you want to regain your licencse. That “check up” is run by private businesses who also sell courses on which answers are right and which are wrong. Basically anything beyond “this was the only time i swear, i was in a bad place and i should have never done it and i am so sorry, and i will never do it again” is a wrong answer.

      Now we had an expert proposal for a higher level of permittable blood THC. The proposed level has yet to pass but it would effectively be fine for occasional users, but still a problem for regular users, as it is close to the baseline THC level that they have.

      So all in all it is a great step forward, especially considering how the “debate” from the political right and fascists was run around 1970s war on drug prohibition and cultural deprevation talking points. However it still creates many aspects to watch out for and it should be noted, that the political right wants to do everything to reverse the laws, when they likely win the elections next year. The problem with that is also that the center right social democrats are still internally devided, with many of them still thinking of weed as the devils lettuce.

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        6 months ago

        Of the 9 countries who legalized it, 1 reverted that already, 6 don’t allow selling and one of those six doesn’t even have proper laws for it, only the supreme court ruling that private growing and possession can’t be banned. For a blue country Germany is mid-table.

        In contrast to Canada and Uruguay Germany is hesitant to openly violate international treaties for this.

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      I can’t decide if I think the stereotypically-uptight Germans being the first to legalize in Europe was unexpected or very expected.

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        Don’t look into any details if you want to keep that opinion

        Any details
        • Only adults may consume and/or own cannabis
        • No buying, selling or giving away weed
        • Only consuming cannabis you or your Cannabis Social Club (CSC), should you join one, grew is allowed. In a CSC cannabis may be grown and sold to its members
        • CSCs may not make profits
        • No more than 50 (30 if you are younger than 21) grams of cannabis per month may be handed out to you by your CSC
        • No cannabis with more than 10% THC may be handed out to people younger than 21
        • Consuming cannabis within 100 meters (visual range) of a playground, school, youth center, public sports facilities or CSCs is prohibited
        • Consuming cannabis between 7am and 8pm in a pedestrian zone is prohibited
        • Consuming cannabis “close” to minors is prohibited
        • No CSC may be established within 200 meters of a school or playground
        • max 500 members per CSC
        • no more than 1 CSC per 6000 city residents (or 1 CSC if the city/town has less than 6000 residents)
        • no extracting THC from cannabis
        • no owning more than 3 cannabis plants
        • no owning more than 50 grams of dried cannabis, including plants
        • no carrying around more than 25 grams of dried cannabis, including plants
        • CSCs have to keep meticulous records about their members, who received when how much cannabis and how much cannabis grew in total
        • police can just go and take these records without requiring a judge’s approval
        • for the coming months: no driving a car or bicycle with more than 1 ng of THC in your blood or you will lose your car driver’s license and pay a fine (yes, even if you’re caught riding your bicycle, you will lose your car driver’s license). Fun fact: the police announced they will significantly increase controls
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          no owning more than 50 grams of dried cannabis, including plants

          Plants don’t have dried cannabis on them.

          No carrying around more than 25 grams

          Being allowed to carry 25g in public is still a lot more than the 7g allowed in Malta and the 3g allowed in Luxembourg. Some US states only allow to posses 28g in total.

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    6 months ago

    The UK should probably be pink not red.

    The police actually wanted to legalize it but the government refused to. They even fired their advisor when he said that cannabis isn’t really that bad and probably shouldn’t be an illegal substance. The UK government is awful and corrupt as hell.

    So it’s still illegal but the police very rarely actually do anything about possession. They may take it off you but it’s not going to result in any legal action.

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      Yeah, were the biggest producer of medical weed in the world but its illegal to have any here, without knowing the right people.

      Like you said, pure corruption.

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        Teresa May’s husband owns the largest supplier in the country. I suppose the family deserves some success but it doesn’t exactly sit very well.

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    brazil can probably be pink instead of red if you are not poor or not black

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      sees the whole world doing something

      Look how the West has influenced the world!

      I think this more of an indication that conservatism is not a strictly Western thing.

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        I’ll recommend reading up on the history of cannabis bans. There were multiple countries which were coersed into criminalising marijuana to open trade with America. Don’t remember if that was Raegan or Nixon.

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      a bit narrow minded to think these issues only revolve around “”“the west”“”. there’s a lot of shit involved

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    Dprk says unknown and while i couldnt tell you the legality on paper, its sold in stores and pretty easy to obtain. I think its usually leaf not flower though?

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      You’re going to confuse people by calling North Korea their chosen moniker. Honestly, it would be really weird for it to be banned in most of the east, because the major reason it was banned in the USA was because of anticompetitive laws and racism, but China is 91% Han and lacks any constitutional antidiscrimination laws so I can’t imagine they would even need to resort to any sort of stealthy racism.

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      Illegal at a Federal level, but legal on a state level is a weird type of ambiguous, but the states it is legal in your won’t be raided by local police, and probably Even Federal Police.