bosstrabs I think I’ve found it tricker to find places that don’t sell booze 24/7 in the US.
Your favourite year of clubbing
Along_the_Wire Try pulling out a lawn chair and drinking it outside though
Also, I have relatives from Indiana, who think every British member of the family has a ‘drink problem’. Even (especially) a woman having three glasses of wine.
Amps It’s kind of a grey area. I mean, most places won’t care, but technically any property outside your own home is illegal to smoke on. Doesn’t mean people abide by that. That said, because it’s legal here, “lounges” can be opened up for enjoying the puff, and you can smoke in one of those as much as you like.
My apartment community expressly forbids it, but people still do it. We just get an email reminder every so often about anyone caught being fined or possibly evicted, but that’s about it. No one ever really does anything.
So….you can, but technically, you can’t. lol.
Dan, you once had a thread my friend. My condolences.
Kells77 It’s kind of a grey area. I mean, most places won’t care, but technically any property outside your own home is illegal to smoke on. Doesn’t mean people abide by that. That said, because it’s legal here, “lounges” can be opened up for enjoying the puff, and you can smoke in one of those as much as you like.
that’s funny, we’re basically the opposite here. you can smoke outside except in playground, near schools, and not right outside the doors of a business. lounges where adults can gather? nope, can’t have that.
303abuser Yeah it’s weird lol. I think it’s mostly because it’s still illegal at the federal level, so any state or federally owned land would be disqualified, and I’m guessing so as not to overwhelm individual businesses or personal property owners, they just blanket made it illegal except in your own home. But saying that, I wasn’t living here when it was legalized, so maybe @jonattonyeah has more info on why it’s like this.
303abuser Well….that just means that federal authorities can, and do, make legal raids on places selling. They don’t really bother everyday users, but the dispensaries can’t legally deposit money in banks (because of federal regulations, but I know there’s a movement to hopefully change this), and I think many of them fully expect to be raided from time to time, meaning they take a big loss on profit and product. It’s a shitty situation all around. Maybe ol’ Joe will sign federal legislation on it, but I’m not holding my breath lol.
Yeah the rules are arbitrary and mostly idiotic. Where we don’t muck about is with over-serving as we can be liable if somebody fucks off, drives home, and murders a family in a drunk driving accident. If they can show we served them too much, it’s on us. I’ve paid for far too people’s taxi rides home. People I don’t even know other than pouring them a pint (people smashing through flasks in the bathroom is tough to monitor and you can’t always tell they’re hammered, if it’s busy, until they stand up).
California is okay for the most part. As long as you don’t act a fool with the ABC. But in other parts of the States, places with dry counties where right as you cross the county line there’s 400 liquor stores, are just dumb about it.
And then there’s New Orleans were you can get a daiquiri at a drive-through as long as the paper part of the straw is still on. If I lived there I’d be dead already.
jonattonyeah Actually the pervasive car use and sprawling suburbs and having to drive to a bar is probably a big issue in the US. A Chinese city has a very dense population and every apartment block will have somewhere you can get a drink. Why bother leaving your block? Fuck driving anywhere, fuck driving at all. If you have to go far from the block, you can get on a subway and a cheap as fuck taxi back. Obviously, this is not how things are in, say, Houston, with no public transport, multi-car households, expensive taxis and big distances from home to bar.