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Europe is not a country, it's a geographic space that hosts several countries and some of those countries are gathered in a (mostly dysfunctional) political un
by jmnicolas 11y ago
Europe is not a country, it's a geographic space that hosts several countries and some of those countries are gathered in a (mostly dysfunctional) political union.
In my small part of Europe (France) drugs and prostitution[1] are not legal[2].
Apart Netherlands I don't know any other country that legalized drugs.
Prostitution is legal in all France's neighboring countries.
[1] to be exact, people can prostitute themselves legally, but clients and pimps are illegal.
[2] though the cops are not going out of their way to fight marijuana or paid sex between consenting adults
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoApart Netherlands I don't know any other country that legalized drugs. The Netherlands hasn't legalized anything. They haven't even decriminalized anything, AFAIK. They just voluntarily choose not to enforce against cannabis being traded and consumed, provided coffeeshops and the like remain discreet. Portugal decriminalized plenty of drugs with set possession limits. Oddly, possessing cannabis seeds remains illegal. Spain also tolerates private drug consumption and even lets grow shops which sell cannabis seeds to exist. Several other European countries either have decriminalization of private consumption, as well. I think Sweden is in there, too.