The difference is you can't taste other people's alcohol but you can smell others' smoke

that's just a "coffee" shop in Netherlands

Dutch coffee shops, you mean?

This is quite common in The Netherlands. They're called coffeeshops.

That’s already a reality in some places. San Francisco, New York, and Amsterdam are some examples.

Your dealers home: Am I a joke to you?

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

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

The issue is that a lot of people that smoke weed in place would reak. I don't think many people would enjoy the smell

I like to get and be high alone though

we have cannabis lounges where I live. it's mostly for tourists that cannot consume in their hotel rooms. no outside products allowed, a menu is provided along with rigs, vaporizers, bongs, etc.

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.

California has a few of these and they’re awesome! Ive seen them in Humboldt county and LA

There are a number of coffee shops exactly like that in Cape Town

More friendly environment w/dry vaporizers (bag, whip, or portable/extract) so there's no smoke (and note the lack of lasting/scented steam clouds that people hate about flavored vape pens). Also edibles and the like... but that just time-delay dosed food.

I would say that drinking is a longer/more gradual experience so has more reason for a dedicated space. Though I guess the passable options that I mentioned could draw the experience out, but I've never done that so I'm not sure what that's like compared to one-and-done/hanging-out-when-high.

(though as others have said, it is a thing)

Lol, they'd have the busiest kitchen in town.

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.

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?

Bay Area guy here. We have quite a few cannabis lounges.

There's a "weed bar" in St. Louis I know of called The Cola

I think it is completely unacceptable to have public places where people go to get intoxicated in a society that practically requires cars.

It should be required that your uber/lyft, or bus/train ticket is prepaid in order to receive any product in these establishments.

This sounds like a great idea in a city center where cars are banned.

If they replaced individual bars rather than expanded the space where drug consumption is the basis of socializing.