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Weed is essentially legal in both cities. In Barcelona through membership. While personal consumption is tolerated in Berlin most places cigarettes are.

> going to a store and buying a nicely packaged edible or a preroll is leagues above buying it off the street

If you want to fit in in these cities you need to drop this American fixation with commercialisation and bubble-wrapping every experience to make it "comfortable".

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The focus is not really on the "commercial" part of it but the part where I don't necessarily have to do everything from the flower stage. In a similar vein, I don't think that Berliners and Barcelonians are churning their own butter because there isn't a shop selling butter already made, or knitting every sock they own because nobody sells socks. The US marijuana sector isn't even really heavily commercialized, there are no major regional or national distributors or sellers of weed, but you can buy products made from flower all the same.

The smell from making my own edibles in an apartment would probably not endear me to my neighbors, and sometimes I would rather use an edible than roll a joint.

You'll only find in NL, and even then, it's only (priced) for tourists. You have to accept that most facets of life aren't quite as convenient as in the states — but most European's hold that as a positive, not negative. Life is more authentic.

Mhmm. I would expect secondary products to only pop up once comprehensive legalization of recreational marijuana was achieved, since investing in the ways to make it at even small scale would only really make sense that way. After all, you can buy CBD products, and THC products are not that far removed.

Making oil is a serious hassle and in some places life already has more than enough authenticity to go around.

I don't think this is about some broader cultural thing around convenience, is it? Isn't it just about legality? Some people actually depend on marijuana on a daily basis, and for those of us that do it's really annoying to have grind up, dry, decarb, cook, strain, etc. every few weeks.

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