{"id":87140,"date":"2022-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growbarato.net\/blog\/stoner-friendly-countries\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T10:16:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:16:19","slug":"stoner-friendly-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbthegreenbrand.com\/blog\/stoner-friendly-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoner-Friendly Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we\u2019re going to talk about stoner-friendly countries, places that any stoner would love to go<\/strong>\u00a0thanks to the fact that it\u2019s legal to smoke there, or at least cannabis has its foot in the door of the law.<\/p>\n

In Belgium<\/strong>, cannabis use was legalized in 2001 as long as it\u2019s for private and personal use<\/strong>; if you\u2019re caught smoking in public then you will most likely get a heavy fine. This law is extremely similar to Spain, where you can smoke inside in your own house and nobody can say a thing to you.<\/p>\n

\"Stoner-FriendlySpain<\/strong> has legalized personal use<\/strong>, as well as having a set of regulations that allows cannabis use through social cannabis clubs, where people can get together to consume cannabis legally. Although Spain has some of the best conditions for growing this plant, these cannabis clubs are founded on a loophole, and the government will look for any excuse to shut them down the first opportunity they get.<\/p>\n

Holland<\/strong> has been a sort of Mecca for stoners, although the prices are ridiculously high for tourists and the quality has gone down somewhat in the last few years. Growing cannabis is illegal in Holland<\/strong>, but you can buy it in many different coffee shops, and the government apparently is completely against people growing in their homes.<\/p>\n

Switzerland<\/strong> partially decriminalized possession of less than 10g<\/strong> of weed for people over the age of 18, which now comes with a small fine rather than a criminal offense. In 2016 serious talks we held involving opening a certain number of trial cannabis clubs in the country.<\/p>\n

Portugal<\/strong> is a country that went against everything every other country stands for when it comes to drugs; they decriminalized cannabis, cocaine, heroin, meth\u2026 basically all of the drugs<\/strong>. This, in turn, caused a significant decrease in users of all substances, a similar result that Holland experienced when coffee shops became a thing. You can possess up to 25g of cannabis, but you may be fined for smoking in public.<\/p>\n

\"Stoner-FriendlyThere are, of course, eight states in the United States<\/strong> that currently allow recreational use of the drug as well as medicinal, and a total of 30 states have legalized cannabis medicinally<\/strong>; even in the states where it\u2019s legalized medicinally it\u2019s apparently quite easy to get a doctor\u2019s recommendation allowing you to use cannabis. Of course, federal law classes cannabis as a schedule l substance, making it federally illegal; this means that although the state you\u2019re visiting has legalized recreational use, organizations such as the FBI have jurisdiction<\/strong> to fine you or shut dispensaries down, for example.<\/p>\n

Colombia<\/strong>, since 2012, allows legal possession of up to 5 grams of cannabis and 1 gram of cocaine, as long as it\u2019s for personal use \u2013 this allows tourists to enjoy strains that are native to Colombia<\/strong> without having to worry about legal issues.<\/p>\n

Argentina<\/strong>\u00a0legalized a system in 2012 that\u2019s similar to the cannabis social clubs in Spain<\/strong>; as long as you use it in private places without annoying other people, cannabis use is allowed.<\/p>\n

Chile<\/strong> allows for personal use as long as it\u2019s in private, and they\u2019ve also legalized personal growing of up to six cannabis plants either indoors<\/a> or outdoors<\/strong> for both recreational and medicinal uses.<\/p>\n

Uruguay<\/strong> legalized the production, recreational and medicinal use of the plant both privately and in groups as long as these groups are in private<\/strong>, and it can also be found in pharmacies. You\u2019re allowed to buy 40 grams a month, grow 6 plants or 480 grams a year.<\/p>\n

Canada<\/strong> allows for personal use and they were one of the first to allow the use of cannabis through permission from the government, as long as the person who wants to consume has the correct permission; they can also grow their own plants, but if you try and do so without permission or if you try to commercialize it and sell it<\/strong>, then you might end up with serious issues, more so than in the United States.<\/p>\n

\"Stoner-FriendlyItaly<\/strong> in 2014 legalized personal use again, allowing users up to one gram of cannabis; it\u2019s decriminalized, meaning that you\u2019ll still get fined if you\u2019re found with more than that on you, but this is still much better than the previous law. Before this new law, in Italy you could go to prison for between 6 to 20 years for growing cannabis<\/strong>. The current law states that you \u201conly\u201d get 2 to 6 years for growing. In Italy you can find some amazing hash strains that come all the way from Asia.<\/p>\n

The Maldives<\/strong> is an amazing paradise that everyone has to see at least once in their lives, and it\u2019s also a haven for weed smokers; although technically it is illegal<\/strong>, there\u2019s no real legislation on it so if you stay in and smoke nobody will say a thing to you.<\/p>\n

Swaziland<\/strong> is a small country in Africa, one of the few countries in the world that is still under an absolute dictatorship, allows for selective of growing medicinal cannabis although they\u2019ve been fighting against commercial grows since the 90s with little results. Many, many amazing sativa-dominant strains come from this country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jamaica<\/strong> finally opened its doors to legal cannabis in 2015, making it even more of a hotspot for stoners; this country has a heavy Rastafarian population<\/strong>, making it absurd that the law was ever so repressive in the first place!<\/p>\n

So, there you have it, a list of some of the countries where you can more or less freely get stoned and have a good time without worrying about the police,<\/strong> freely enjoying cannabis and all of the culture that comes with it.<\/p>\n

Author<\/strong>: Fabio Inga
\nTranslation<\/strong>: Ciara Murphy<\/p>\n

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