pineapplefriedriceJun 26, 2023

Wouldn't it be nice if instead of just bars with alcohol, there were establishments for people to consume cannabis while eating, playing board games, and socializing?

https://lemmy.world/post/623358

Wouldn't it be nice if instead of just bars with alcohol, there were establishments for people to consume cannabis while eating, playing board games, and socializing? - Lemmy.world

If anything, cannabis seems like a much better (and more profitable) drug around which to build a leisurely establishment.

Show threadqueryJun 26, 2023
If they replaced individual bars rather than expanded the space where drug consumption is the basis of socializing.
Show threadCruxifux
I don’t smoke weed, but phrasing it’s usage as “drug consumption” always annoyed me. It makes it sound like it’s the same thing as heroin or meth, which it’s not even close to the same thing.
Jun 26, 2023 at 5:42amWeb
Show threadqueryJun 26, 2023
It's the same thing as alcohol.
Show threadCruxifuxJun 26, 2023
It isn’t. And when people say “drugs” they’re almost never talking about alcohol anyway, unless the conversation is literally about the designation of what constitutes a drug and what doesn’t, which is convoluted as heck.
Show threadcley_fayeJun 26, 2023
Depends on your circles I suppose. Drug is drug.
Show threadjusthachJun 26, 2023

Yep. I can't stand this "oh, weed is harnless" attitude a lot of people have towards cannabis. Its an intoxicant like any other, and should be treated as such.

The amount of friends I have who think that they're fine to smoke and drive are too damn high.

Show threadkestrel7Jun 26, 2023
Heroin, amphetamines, alcohol, and cannabis all have genuine medicinal uses, and also all can be abused depending on context. Drug consumption is a fine, value-neutral term, which can refer to both their use and abuse.
Show threadCruxifuxJun 26, 2023

The war on drugs generation has had that reality tainted though mate. There are a lot of (mostly ultra conservative religious types) people who see drug use as the same whether it be meth or weed. And they don’t see beer the same way usually.

But in a very literal sense you’re absolutely correct. But we’re having a conversation about perception here.