Why Are There So Many Weed Shops in Prague?!
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0:00 The Green Image of Prague
1:03 Sure, It Is Legal
2:11 Just Make the Sell
4:11 They Claim To Have a License
5:12 Is It Legal?
7:06 Copying Others, Targeting Tourits
8:43 Czech Vocabulary
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Forget the false advertising and THC, those shops should be banned for the hideous looking storefronts alone.
Going to visit medieval part of the city - Weed shop , Weed shop , star bucks , weed shop :D...
There are quite tight regulations how the buildings should look like in Prague. Imagine you live in a forgotten street far from any tourist - You want plastic window frames to better insulate? Too bad, you have to have wooden frames. Yet it is fine to have those disgusting shops create an image of the city. Doesn't make any sense
@@martinkominek6712 wooden frames are great as well when it comes to isolation the glass depends the most , but they are more expensive and fragile compared to plastic
They seem to work
@PragueXCH asian shops ? This is not year 2005 ... these are not owned by asians, they are legal shops with weed that has chemicly removed thc
Imagine we have an honest guide in every country even every city. The world will be in a much better place. Thank you for your work.
It would give scams an opportunity to mimic as trustworthy even better! From my point of view, the only proper way is through the law
Well honest guide is very famous in czechia. Therefore, if more channels like these were set up, they would have a lot of locals either backing them up for being truthful or showing their scamming.
In theory you're right.
In that scenario there would be many many furious scammers... Would cause different problems
@@mitraelkankan1794 no people will find out sooner or later
Onlu one American whos Says True About your Colonist 🙈😂🫵🏻
I'm more surprised there were that many morally honest vendors in the area than shady ones, kudos to you for showing both sides.
Well, don’t be surprised that they told him the truth…”Honest Guide” is well known by most disreputable and unscrupulous operators…so many of them would immediately recognize what is going on. They would have probably told a tourist something completely different.
I live in the neighborhood he is showing.
Thanks for what you do bro- ive got relatives all over Czechia and planning on arriving in November. Your videos have been a major help in navigating reality.
That's hilarious how green and ridiculous they have to make their storefront. I live in a legal state, and our dispensaries don't really look much different than other stores on the outside.
In spain the stores(clubs) aren’t allowed to advertise anything outside that can directly suggest it’s a weed store
In Canada some look normal. Or get creative and have symbols and store name with goofy slang. But still they blend in with the surrounding stores.
But some have to go all out and put weed leafs and CANNABIS or DISPENSARY in giant letters on the outside.
Only requirement seems to be, all glass has to covered up with that clear privacy shield stuff, so you can't see in from the outside.
American dispensaries in your average American town or city aren't really aimed at trying to attract tourists like a store in the most touristy area of Prague is, it's not really comparable. I'm sure if there were dispensaries in time square they would also look similar to this. The dispensaries in the touristy areas of Amsterdam also look kind of like this.
There are some Cannabis stores that are former banks & other such stores.
@@ChrisM-bn5vr there are dispensaries in midtown Manhattan, and they don’t look like that.
I just returned from Prague about 3 hours ago and I am appalled at the number of swindlers and scammers. 99% of the inns and restaurants are scammers - terrible food, hidden costs, tip added without informing. What shocked me is that without asking, even in intimate and dignified places, they pour 2 or 3 servings of wine - the price on the receipt is striking. The city is beautiful, but the authorities need to do something about the crooks and the mafia, because it's disgusting. If one comes from a country where there is no thievery and fraud, believes people and trusts their goodwill, one will be strongly surprised.
hey man, sorry about that, but as a person who lives in Prague for 7 years now I´d really like to see those scammy restaurants that you´re talking about, give me a few names and ill check them out.
Prague is the world capital of scamming. Don't go there.
Maybe just leave tourists straps. Prague is a huge city but tourists stay only in 3 streets.
What country do u leave In with no thief’s or frauds
its hhc they just say its thc, who cares, people that want to get high get high and all is good, hhc is non toxic there are just no laws around it
I was in Prague about 7-8 yrs ago. I could swear, there weren’t that many weed shops as today. It’s crazy.
SAME. I was there multiple times during 2012-2016 and never saw a single shop. I might've just been too young lol
Same, I was there in 2016 and some of us were specifically searching for weed so we would have noticed if there had been a single one of those shops. We however found a hidden underground bar with nice stuff.
weed is very reachable in Prague. you don't need those weed shops. I can easly say that weed is almost legal. If you are a czech or a tourist with some experience you can find all kind of drugs like DMT mescalin LSD even *eroin or c**aine shortly whatever you want in there. some natives are very fond with drugs. I think those tourist scam weed shops opened after covid.
Thanks for the informative videos! Finally i made it to Prague after 3 years and saved lot of money by avoiding these scams because of the information you have provided in these years!!
Was in Prague last week and the amount of stores that sell weed is overwhelming. We were approached multiple times by some guys that drive around on bikes and questioned us if we want to buy some. It is a real shame that a beautiful city like this is ruined with these tourist traps that don't add anything to the historic value and the beauty of Prague.
Why trap? They sell cbd and hhc thats not bad at all.
@@friedrichs.8004 Because a lot of them lie about what they sell. I can't judge their prices but I have serious doubts about that as well.
That is not ruined but heaven on earth
Is it weird that I would trust the people on the street more than these stores? All of the things they were selling looked like dust.
I also think the flashiness of it is really ugly. I can see teenage me being entertained by it.
@@friedrichs.8004 The effects of CBD are negligible. And the quality of those products looked sketchy as hell.
If it's not regulated, then they can lie about how much is actually in it. And since it's for tourists, they don't have to worry about it not doing anything, since they are not catering to return customers.
A tourist trap is anywhere that sells something for a marked up price, who relies on foreigners for business. If there are no locals around, that's a red flag. Cause that means no returning customers.
Dealers rely on return customers. So I would find them more reliable if I wanted to smoke while in another country.
Most of the expensive prices you were talking about are only meant for tourists. When a Czech person walks in and speaks czech, they´ll give you a "normal" price. I remember last time my friends from the UK were in Prague, we went to buy a few beers in one of these shops because it was like 2AM and the pub we were heading into was quite far so we went to purchase five beers and the cashier was like 500CZK. So I started to talk in czech that that´s a ridiculous price and the cashier was like "Oh... you are Czech, you get it cheaper" and the final price was like 250CZK.
i always spoke russian in prague and the bartenders gave me the beer for free because they were scared i persume
It's sad that people want to scam you like that in eastern europe. Like I am already enriching you by buying a product or a service from you and would probably leave a nice tip as well but on top of that they have to upsell me by like 2 or 3 times the actual price. This is a problem really everywhere outside of western/northern Europe
@@rexislv6025 you must be joking, number of scammers in eastern europe pales in comparision with western tourist hotspots, go to paris or venezia and basically anyone that says anything to you want to steal from you
@@rexislv6025 i mean yeah, because your income is 2-3 times higher then us and you are willing to pay that price.
@@iplaygames8090 "you have more money and if it is possible to scam you then it is okay to do it." Nice logic and morals.
Dobrá práce, Janku. Díky za všechny informované cizince.
Cheers to all the honest guides of the world... These are the genuinely good natured people that want to help tourists and travellers to have a good time, not get ripped off or taken advantage of ... The world needs people like this.
if they sell hhcp .. why lie ? hhcp is stronger than thc .
So it's either the sale of an illegal item or it's fraud. They should lose their license, get shut down, and have more people point out their scams.
I say let them scam. This is the one group of people (stoners) who absolutely deserve it. They are inconsiderate to everyone else and give other tourists a bad name.
For sure. These shops actively made me dislike Prague. I love Prague, but these shops just sour Prague into oblivion.
@@Arlae_Nova just keep in mind that these shops and a lot of other tourist scams are actually operated by foreign people(like the money changing scams done by eastern europeans, not Czechs). The people working in the weed stores cant even speak czech. So dont let that ruin your view on Czechia and its people, you are more than welcomed to visit our country :)
@@Arlae_Nova all citycenter is making me dislike Prague, with the hop on ripoff and scam hams...
there is no license. The sell souvenirs. The only way to loose the shop would be if they sold something illegal.
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I went to Prague with my girlfriend and we decided to try the HHC gummybears. We took two each after asking many times if we would get high with that, well we definitely were high, maybe too much tbh. They were very kind to us and even explained the difference between hhc and thc because we didn’t know it. Also they didn’t treat us like stupid tourists and gave us informations about what we were consuming. I guess it heavily depends on the kindness of the employers in the shop, because i also remember some other shops we went into and we felt like they forcefully wanted to sell us everything. Btw i think we paid like 14 euros for two gummybears each, but with just one you’ll definitely feel high
This doesn't sound accurate and honestly I get the impression your tolerance is very low. I write this as I await the effects of, supposed, 40mg dose of delta 9 from a gummy to kick in...
@@AzziSenpai yeah bro it could also be that my tolerance is very low, but it’s subjective of course
For me HHC gummies don't really do much, I ate 200mg the other day and was like a 3/10 stoned at the maximum. When I use a HHC vape cart it gets me to about a 5/10 and I can't get any higher than that no matter how many puffs I take. It's really strange to me because everyone feels it stronger. I feel like a better cannabinoid is HHC-P that one gets me to an 11/10 stoned it's so damn strong.
@@AzziSenpaitry thc-p, way more potent than reg thc
@@AzziSenpaior hhc-p 🎉 be careful.. they might be 33x more potent
I went Prague in November 2000, and then again in sept 2004. Even in that 4 year period, it started to go downhill from a architectural wonder with a chance of innocence, to a tourist trap. It was really noticeable. Sounds like over the last 18 years, it is trying to become sort of Ansterdamn
What don't you get? It's a great city and that's why you and everyone else has gone there.
You are responsible for making it a tourist trap.
Places change over time.
Apparently at one point in time, timbouctou was quite the place to be.
Amsterdam is awesome though. 😂 what’s your point?
@@tsampson6660 Amsterdam and Prague are not even remotely comparable. People actually go to Amsterdam to get high and enjoy all those things, yet the city is very well contained, clean and rather friendly. Prague is becoming absolutely unregulated garbage. Tourists didn't cause the historic city to be covered with weed shops and plastic everything, locals did.
@@valimaa1006 have you ever left Europe? To suggest Prague and Amsterdam are not even remotely comparable is...well...sigh...
@@tsampson6660 lol no don't even try. Only responsibles are czech authtorities and inhabitants
As a Dutch person I was shocked by the amount of weed shops in the city centre
I live in the Netherlands, too, and I couldn´t believe there are more fake weed shops in Prague than there are real weed coffeeshops in the Red Light District in Amsterdam!
@@10jpmorgan Just wondering, do you work at JPM?
@@user-rh3pe7um8d Nope, I'm no relation to the J.P.Morgan/Chase Manhattan Bank. Too bad. Wish I could get bail-outs like that! I'd spend the money in Prague!😄
@@10jpmorgan Hahaha, yeah. That would be nice. Prague, Vienna, Budapest... central Europe has such beatuiful cities. I'm a bit of a finance bro, so that's why I was wondering.
Why do you come off as annoying
🇵🇦 I have been visiting Prague for 12 years as a solo-tourist 🇸🇽 I really thank you for highlighting this negative issue❤ If I were Prague mayor, I would not only ban fake weed shops, but I would ban smoking stricktly all over this beautiful gem in the heart of Europe 💜
I bought joint in the weed shop, later I discovered it had a notice on a box which said "Do not smoke it is for decoratove puproses only" while it was a mildest joint I still gave it a try, it got me so stoned I was walking same street on circles for hours and was not able to find an exit : D
Lovely video, was writing a whole paragraph on it here in the comments but it seems like you've done your research. Love how informative this video is!
Thanks for explaining. I wondered why there were almost more weed shops than Trdelník shops
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And that crap is a tourist scam as well. No Czech person eats that crap or ever heard of them before a few years ago.
That is Kűrtőskalács, and that is Hungarian, the taste is different.
Yes, I was baffled by it when I was there
@@joeuser633 Well, even if it's not Czech, you could still say it belongs to the region.
thanks for this!
Yo this was awesome!!! Thanks for curing my boredom, just over here in Toronto eating home made home grown space cake :D
We literally just got back from Prague 2 days ago (and your videos were extremely helpful, thank you!). I'm glad I did my research ahead of time before falling for this trap. The one shop I did go into the owner was at least honest with me that his "weed" pens were just HHC.
Which has basically the same effect as thc 😁
@@Nordland18 Mm no no its not
@@Nordland18 it’s the comedown of a delta9 high where you’d be compelled to redose except it’s hhc so that’d be hopping on a dragon that’s not fun
@@anden987 It kinda does tho... Ive consumed so many diff variants of cannabis that use delta 8, delta 10, or other things; and they give you a very similar high, but usually less long lastin of a high and it cant get you as high; like, youre unlikely to hit couchlocked lvls of highness
Delta 9 THC has the best effect by far, but the other options still work.
Heck, even CBD will get you its own kind of high, but without any brain fog; just a generalised euphoric sensation, which is also even more true when you consume it for medical reasons... As you end up gettin that euphoria combined with the euphoria of turnin down the chronic pain or turn down the sensory overload
@@SylviaRustyFae could say the same thing about k9 spice mix? Might give a simulior high dosent mean shit you can probaly inhale some gas and get the same effects as lSD (ofc not but bare with me) its not the same thing hhc is still a research chemical and should be treated as such
Thanks for your amazing work and passion, Janek. 1 day at 1 time, 1 thief at a time, people around you are safer due to your unselfish work. Keep up your good work Hello from Singapore
:)
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Be careful in these shops if buying cbd. They place 2 or 3 products in front of you with clearly 'krona' prices, then they ask you if you pay by card. If you say yes and then choose a product you discover (later) that they have replaced the krona product with a product with the 'euro' symbol on it . So your 220 krona (for example) purchase, becomes 220 euro. If you go back to complain suddenly the boss is phoned to tell you to fuck off, and if you persist suddenly a huge knuckle dragging guy will walk in the door to threaten you. Best advice is just do not purchase anything, do not support these stores.
Even bigger scam
Backward Slav country, figures lol
Did that happen to you or what?
@@miklyways oddly specific, eh?
@@miklyways yes mate, me and my brother about 6 months ago. The whole situation was a clearly practiced scam. From the asshole boss on the phone, to the 6 foot 10 goon she sent in, who laughably arrived within minutes. Funny that they don't call police , but they have a goon at the standby. I guess it amounts to the same thing as the police coming , as all you end up leaving with is your dick in your hand and no chance of getting your money back. I will put the store name up when I check the receipt.
I was here touristing the other week and these stores made it easy to tell which areas of the city weren't worth visiting lol
One more thing you should make a video about are the small shiny shops in Prague. Mostly the employees are asians and the shop sells everything for 10x the price as the normal without writing it out. They approach you, trying to help then they grab something and scan it into their machine and push you to buy it, and threaten to call a police or sue you.
Crazy how Czech Republic is not regularized to stop scams.
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If they are scammers the last thing they will do is call the police. I'm suprised this tactic works.
It's the same situation in Bucharest, Romania. Lots of similar shops that I always wondered about, good video.
Austria and Switzerland the same.. I'm Germany cbd shops be popping up to
@@AlFredo-ci9yo well at least now you guys can stop worrying about that
In Zizkov you find some bars to hang out and chill , far away from the touristic old city center...
LMFAO @ Snoop's pictures on the signs and stickers at shops 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is funny. And thanks again for your videos from someone who will be in Prague for a few days in August of 2023. As a native New Yorker (well, actually Jersey City) I grew up seeing the games played against tourists, especially in Manhattan. They still go on.
Between Prague's money changing scams and the weed nonsense you have exposed, my visit there will have a few familiar moments. I know I'm going to love it there. I hope I have a chance encounter to buy you a beer to thank you in person.
BTW - by the time I leave on my monthly train trip through Europe, recreational use of grass will be legal in NJ and the weed shop being built less than 5 minutes walk from my apartment me will open. But I'm not likely to be a customer. I went through all the smoke I ever want back in early 70s in Chicago when part of the daily fun was its illegality.
Dude it's legal in Jersey already. What are you talking about?
@@growthmonger4341 dude, it's "legal" here in Jersey City but there isn't a "legally" open shop.
I assure you, my friend, weed has come very far since the 70s. Nowadays you get bud that'll knock you into next week, bud that'll make you work like a racehorse, bud that'll make you understand that the meaning of life is in fact bananas, back then it was a grab bag and if you were buying from a dealer instead of a mate that grew you had to pay massive premiums and fly to Jamaica to buy today's normal quality. Pick up a pre roll in their opening day sale and have it after dinner, you won't regret it.
@@namae6637 I've heard that is true but I have no interest in experiencing it personally. In the late 60 - early 70s - I owned a business that required monthly visits to Los Angeles and San Fran. I'd spend two nights in each before returning to Chicago. On one trip, on my last day, I bought a kilo for Maui Wowie for $200. It came as a hard compressed brick in a Tupperware snaplid box that might hold 6 or sandwiches. One edge was sticky because resin had leaked out of poorly closed seam.
It wouldn't fit in my carry on and I traveled without check in luggage. The overhead bins were full. So I rode the four hour flight with the box of weed on my lap or on the floor under the seat ahead of me.
I know that today it's not possible to imagine a world without xrays, dogs, etc - but it did exist. You could walk up to the ticket desk ten minute before a flight and buy a one way ticket for cash. No ID need. Just give them any name you wanted.
Good times.
Better prepare yourself to be ripped off by restaurants - terrible local food, overpriced, non-existing service and bad mood of waiters, including tips and upselling bills on their own. No one speaks English out of city center.
Welcome to the 15th century eastern europe.
i was in prague a month ago and luckily i was with my czech speaking friend, i didn't get swindled and all the shop owners were honest with us, ended up getting an HHC vape which was pretty good
Thanks for exposing these scam shops
great content, keep up !
I actually asked in one of the shops whether it is real and they were kind enough to answer honestly :) (I knew it wasn't legal to sell "real" weed. I was just wondering whether police ignores it or if it is real. I also wasn't interested in buying even though they didn't know)
A bit like strip clubs in Eastern Europe
Personal use is not legal but as a policy they ignore it. Kinda like the Netherlands but less formalized.
You can grow max five plants of cannabis, posess 15 grams of cannabis, 40 magic mushrooms, 5 grams hash, 5 tabs lsd, 1.5 gram heroin, 1 gram cocaine and 2 grams of meth.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these shops had actual real weed, they just pretend it's not real if someone asks them to protect themselves. In The Netherlands it's technically illegal to sell weed but you still see shops selling weed everywhere because the police tolerate the sale of soft-drugs.
Idk what you guys are all one about they sell both legal and illegal I go all the time
Hhc is real weed. Most governments just hasn't caught on to it yet
This is EXACTLY why I’m glad cannabis has been legalized in Canada and have been regulated. Sure, the illegal market is there, but nothing feels better than going into a government dispensary and getting something you know isn’t tainted or falsely advertised.
So nothing ever gets messed up by the government?
@@D-A-A- Not some sort of degree that someone gets hurt seriously. I’ve heard of some product being recalled due to some mould, but that’s with cheap and lower end companies. Very rare.
@@D-A-A- no but they do it less often than some shady drug dealer or scammer store owner
the legacy market in canada has better weed than the dispos unfortunately because the way legalization happened was absolute shit. but at least you can smoke in peace
@@jeroid123 Explain
I've only heard the "no, that's illegal, we only have flavors" etc. in Prague. Plenty of scams in Prague though, but have had way worse experiences with hotel lobby bars.
We‘ve been there with our class two years ago, and were comletely thrilled by these shops. Nevertheless I don‘t have good memories about the country, as two classmates of mine who are black, have constantly been bullied and insulted by these people, during our two weeks. Racism really is a huge topic in this country.
same, A friend of mine is black. he went to Prague and he had to tolerate all those stupid chocolate and poop jokes.
Would be so easy to send in a secret shopper and shut this down. Have to imagine there are essentially corrupt officials allowing this to happen. When I used to sell beer in the US, there was always a threat of a secret underage shopper working for authorities.
they're not illegally selling weed, they're just tricking people into thinking there is weed in it
Yeah, the weed should be illegal. Someone should rat them out! People should not be able to choose what they put in their bodies and only the government should decide.
@@nickmcdonald6731 they were not selling thc. Are you really defending a scam or did you not watch the video.
@@AEVMU There selling HHC which I've tried multiple times and it gets you pretty much the same high. No one's gunna know what that means but so there not gunna put it on their main sign because it would just confuse people and most people don't know its very similar to THC and would get turned away by it. I watched the whole video and this was the only video I've seen by this guy that I haven't fully agreed with. It just seemed really controlling to take the stance that it was bad or immoral if the weed was real. If it was real and its decriminalized then people are going to have to get it some how... the shit don't just fall out the sky.
If it's corrupt officials letting it happen do you think it would be better and less corrupt if they just fully legalized it and then sold the contracts to supercorperations so that all the small businesses are wiped out and its taxed at a super high rate to the consumer ??
my son is going to Prague today with his school. We were in Amsterdam together in the start of the year, so i send him link on this video, just so he know Czech stuff is not same as Dutch stuff :) thanks for video!
classy parents letting school kids smoke weed LMAO
@@TheWeardale1 if kids want to smoke weed they will do so if you allow it or not. Better to be open and honest so they don't fall for this synthetic shit and ruin their health.
@@mfhex1398 yes, what a good parent you are LOL
@@TheWeardale1 better to smoke weed then to drink alcohol if he will ever choose between those two.
@@TheWeardale1 What are you talking about even? Weed is one of the safest substances known to humanity. It's not as if he's drinking alcohol or anything heavy.
I bought an Absinthe bottle in one of those stores in Prague. It was just some random spiritus with green color. I have used it as a cleaning product.
I went to Prague in 2018 and don't remember seeing this. They had loads of "souvenir" shops that sold smoking accessories bags of CBD weed but they didn't call themselves cannabis shops
I was in Prague a few years ago for a stag, that was for a lad who was from Prague who lived in Dublin. There wasn't these weed shops when I was there in 2017, got everything sorted by the hotel staff and their local connections. I obviously didn't ask straight away.
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Yeah this is weird to me. I didn’t see any of this when I was in Prague. The locals hooked me up though.
I got offered it while renting a car in 2006
You Irish simps always have to mention your daft country or city like its special. It's special arite.
Heading to prague soon might ask the hotel staff where i can get some proper weed
Janek, I learned about your channel and I think you’re really fun and provide information in a fun way.
P.S. You seem cute too btw
That's what I love about the spanish autonomous region Cataluña. There are cannabis clubs, where it is legal to grow plants and for members to smoke it.
You can find these clubs easily online, but from the outside there is not a single thing, which would give you a clue.
These shops are just embarrassing for Prague.. I hadn't been in Prague 1 for a while and took my visiting friend on a little tour. To be honest it is cringe-worthy how much tat and rubbish is being punted around everything from these weed shops, trdelniks, sweet shops etc.. We stopped just off Staromesto Namesti and bought Klobasa... This was also overpriced lukewarm and bad quality.
Prague is a beautiful city, I don't understand how the local authorities even allow these dreadful shops to open.
Thanks for your great content honest guide!
The UK has similar issues, but they’re phone shops that sell vape products and EXTREMELY OVERPRICED prime in some places, like Chatham or Leeds. (We also have ‘Weed’ shops that are clearly not weed.)
dont smoke-but didn't realise that these vape shops are overpriced??cant you just inform the council?
@@burlhorse61 They can’t do shit about it, once they shut one down, another one opens just another street away.
laundering fronts
When i visited 10 years ago you just went into a pub and if you bought a drink, then asked the bartender where to get weed they would point you to the guys sitting in the back.
As someone who lived in prague for most of my life, jolly hell, ive never noticed that, wow
Saw stores like this in florence. Luckily, checked google reviews which kept it real with me
very timely video! just last month I was in Prague wondering about this
My best guess at the time was that Prague was just trying to give Amsterdam vibes, just like it has so many Irish pubs,
"the tourists" might not know the difference between European countries.
It's becose of boom of HHC , so basicly it gets you high and it is not ilegal ... for now.
Lol what? You think a tourist in Prague is going to forgot they're in Prague and think they're in Amsterdam or Ireland because of a pub or dispensary? Are you joking? People don't just forget what country they are in.
The very thought of the 'Irish pub' abroad makes me cringe. I've seen thousands across the world and they are all absolute shite.
There is nothing Irish about them except their Guinness which they sell for more than they sell in Ireland. Which is absurd in a country like Czech where life is comparitively cheap.
Irish pubs abroad are not Irish pubs. They are American style diner/bars full of old men who should have just stayed home if they were just going to find a bloody Irish bar abroad.
@@ChrisM-bn5vr he said that they don't know the differences between them, not that they literally don't know what country they're in. And it's true, a lot of tourists for some reason treat continental Europe as if it's just one big blob, like it's just the same as different US states or something
Been to several major European cities, I noticed this trend in a few others. Brussels also stood out
I live in Canada where it's legal and shops are everywhere, similar to liquor stores, it's great !
Yh my dumbass was in Toronto for 5 days and didn’t try it. Either I didn’t know it was legal or didn’t care to but I do regret that because it’s illegal where I live.
yea but this is fake, its just hemp without thc, just cbd weed.
I was in that same store he went in at around 6:00 minutes. I bought the gummies that were up on the screen, and they did exactly what I wanted them to do. They made me feel more relaxed, in a very subtle way.
Nice video, tell people the truth before they get scammed. Selling cbd, HHC or thc is not the main issue, these depend on legal restrictions. But lying to people about psychoactive substances can be risky. I think we should share this video to more people to avoid it. There are also trusted cannabis stores such as Kannastar who will let you know what you are buying.
What an awesome, upstanding, beautiful, honest type of individual you have to be, to spend one third of your daily life, time, and energy, working as one of these shifty shop swindlers. Absolutely no shame as they lie to you, with responses that doesn't even come close to resembling a viable deception or slightly clever con.
Do you have a brain? He does it for CZcams views
Prague is full of those scumbags since decades & none of them is ethnically Czech !!!
On my first trip to Prague 4 years ago I stayed in a hotel 10ft away from the first cannabis shop he was standing outside of. It didn’t take long to realise it’s all fake and they’re mislabelling hemp, other than that it just acted as a conscience store
Did you actually try any of the weed and find out if it was fake or not? I highly doubt all these stores would be able to operate from just selling fake hemp that didn't get you high. In The Netherlands it's technically illegal to sell weed but all the coffee shops still exist, I wouldn't be surprised if these places are selling real weed but just say it's not real THC to protect themselves.
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Well HHC is still a natural cannabinoid, not to be confused with what is called "Spice". It's contained in Weed as far as I know, and it's about similar in potency. Hell, HHC (hexa~) only has 2 Hydrogen Atoms more compared to THC (tetra~), so similar effects are to be expected.
When i met you in Prague I was actually waiting for my friend who was in search of weed that he wanted to smoke😂. He found it in the end, but of course, not in a weed shop lmao
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So easy to find. Just go to the main square in Prague, near the clock. Then just ask the first African-looking guy that you see standing around there. The bud's lovely there and you generally get a really nice deal.
@@decaDBZ if the price is 100-200CZK per gram on street, it checks up, but i wouldn't believe that people sell it at this price to tourists as to locals
That's crazy, when I went there in 2016 they weren't any of these fake weed shops, but ended up scoring some good weed at a dive bar.
I don't actually think these are fake weed shops, I'm sure a lot of them are selling real weed. In The Netherlands it's illegal to sell weed but you still see coffee shops all over Amsterdam because the police tolerate it, I'm sure it's a similar thing happening in Prague. Also even if it's not real THC weed it's probably HHC or Delta-8 which both still get you high like normal weed, so it's not really "fake" weed, it still gets you high.
@@ChrisM-bn5vr not true, I was in Prague and it's a scam fest.
Me and my wife moved to Prague from US 6 years ago. We love it here and neither one of us would go back. I get 5 grams of CBD WEED for 800 CZK. It's not super strong, but it does get you high enough.
Is there any chance of you releasing more copies of your book? It would be super helpful and keep us off our phones researching the whole time!
I am planning to visit Prague sometime this year. Most likely in September, the weather will be pleasant.
You wanna get your hands on that HHC
Does anyone know what song is that at the "Copying Others, Targeting Tourits" part?
we were in prague for a school trip and we just got a hhc vape and found a chill spot at the water next to a bridge and just taking in the lights
2:57 Mila bar is supposed to cost around 15-19 CZK. Tesco have them now for 10.90 CZK, if you have the discount card/clubcard. 150 CZK is just completely insane.
6,41€ for a candy bar? I'd question the sanity of everyone who buys this?
(Otoh Starbucks' cheapest coffee at Zurich airport was more than 10€ and the line was out the door...)
@@user-jk2zm7uq5s Airports are a different kind of insanity or even hell 😱
I was just in Prague, I enjoyed walking around the city seeing all the different weed related names for these shops. It was always fun finding one with a new name. Think I'll stick to the beer and goulash if I'm ever back though 😅
Ok so that was the fun part. What a great vacation you had. Yeah i mean, what could be better than walking around with a smug sheepish smile, “wow thats a new one, cant wait to tell the guys back home”.
Would slice my wrists somewhere in that exiting Postcard From Prague, not sure where, can you insert them at the appropriate place for me?
I had the same question when I was in Prague a few weeks ago. I asked a Czech friend if weed was legal there and he said no. I was confused till I see this video.
Idk there's a good amount of false advertising in dispensaries and I'm not completely impressed with what there allow producers to get away with. Overall simply a worse product compared to the craft cannabis/home grown scene, illegal market is a little bit hit/miss but Im always getting better quality and bang for ur buck from street weed, it just smokes alot closer to how organic home grown does, it's not irradiated, usually not sprayed but it's not hard to tell, where dispo nugs are almost always sprayed in my experience, or they just dry dusty chalk consistency, smokes too fast and harsh, Overall i think the legal market has been most successful in giving the illegal market a bar to outperform while the legal market focuses on "cheap"/convenience factors
thank you
in austria we also have shops that sell the exact same stuff, but they are extremly honest/friendly, nothing gets hidden and everybody knows why theyre there
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They also just sell the stuff that they are allowed to sell like magic mushroom grow kits or cati with mescaline and you can have them as pretty decoration in you living room^^
Austria is a far cry from scam oriented Prague. Austrians have more integrity and common sense.
It's also more beautiful in my opinion. Cheers!👍👍
@@daddy1571 cheers mate
@@daddy1571 depends where in Austria/Czech tbf.. Coming from the USA myself both countries seemed almost like the same place when I went last year, only different language. Both beautiful, both had their shady areas. Proly my two favorite countries in central Europe
I am living in Czech Republic, not in Prague but smoking (real) weed is not really a problem here. The cops do not care and if they do and you have under 5 gram on you they just qualify it as a minor offence. People smoke everywhere. Compared to Slovakia or Poland, you are safe. In these 2 neighbouring countries you can get in real problems with just a little bit of weed. There are vending machines with CBD weed everywhere and every little town has atleast a shop selling these products. How ever smoking real THC weed is not really a problem from my own experience.
oh i had a question like this, so from corner dealer you get good thc weed and noone even will look at you if you smoke it on a bench because it smells the same as cbd one? Well my next vacation then will be a Chech republic
In Poland we get medical one and we give no fucks about low quality Czech streey weed, also beer is soso for pussies only
I'm from Poland and smoke weed. Once in my life I was stopped by cop's for weed. Never I've got a ticket for it. So he doesn't know what he's talking about even. Sounds like one of those shop seller/owners who will say anything to make you buy there fake weed.
@@kwrona Sure thing Sherlock.
Have you tried the weed from these shops? Does it actually get you high or is it just fake hemp like people in these comments are theorizing. Because in my opinion these shops probably actually are selling real weed, they're just saying it doesn't contain THC to protect themselves. In The Netherlands its technically illegal to sell weed but there are still coffee shops everywhere because the police tolerate it, so I imagine it's a similar thing here in Prague. I would find it very hard to believe all of these shops could operate selling fake weed to customers.
Looks good enough to me, havent visited in exactly a quarter century so why not go and have a look, I will be in another country close to Tsjechia sp might as well visit for a couple of days❤❤❤
I was in New Orleans 3 years ago, and it was pretty similar. They had these Weed trucks/vans everywhere, and a few stores. At the time, weed with THC was illegal. It was just for tourists. In Florida (where I live), medical marijuana is legal (if you have a card). You can only get legal weed (with THC) from a dispensary. The dispensaries look a bit more like an Apple store or a high class spa.
Great video. We have tons of these shops in the USA that sell dubious products and are very pushy.
All the ones in usa are legit weed 😂😂😂 if it looks anything like this its a illegal weed shop. No one sells dubious stuff in usa
@@levonski1911 tons of states allow it now- there are quite reputable industrial producers in North America. it just does not make sense to sell fake stuff if you can drive a bit and get good quality legal stuff.
@@jp-ui6qg exactly im with u on tht. But there is still ton of illegal shops in us that dont have licenses but they still sell weed but weed is too cheap here to sell fake stuff lol
Delta-8 and 10 are pretty real my dude.
Props to the shop admitting it's an alternative HHC, at least they're telling you what you're getting.
The stuff really contains THC tho. I tried it myself
I think the shops saying it has THC aren't lying, in The Netherlands it's illegal to sell weed but the coffee shops still operate all over Amsterdam because the police tolerate the sale of weed. I'm sure the same thing is happening in Prague.
@@vipr1142 hhcs effect is pretty much indistinguishable flom thcs
@@vipr1142 "Its real because i get high"
yeah 100% thc
If you visit Prague you must visit the bar called Alternative, in the center, very close to Hard Rock cafe
for anyone wondering hhc is still a cannabinoid and it still has psychoactive properties, but if you buy it its synthetic
As someone from BC, Canada, where weed is legal to sell recreationally, I find this absolutely mind boggling!
its tourist trap . its mostly bad techical weed with no thc . just scammers
thanks for ur research
Dang, I remember when folks went to Prague to buy fine quality glassware...
Prague is such a amazing city. Every time I see your videos I get some good times flashbacks when I was there.
I was so zoned out I missed half of that, but the half I watched was fantastic and very very interesting
Thanks for letting us know.
im about to be in prauge thats crazy this video popped up
I went to Prague about 14 years ago and I don’t remember any of those garish trash shops and the beer was ridiculously cheap and nice quality.
I have never taken any form of narcotic in my life, and though I have heard the term 420 before, I had never known what it meant until you told me at the end of your video. I guess you learn something new every day.
I used to take the 420 bus to my job for years. When I started to see this number written on walls around the city I thought at first that there were someone really obsessed with the bus and its itinerary.
@@irondasgr I guess it reflects who you are. I myself don't drink, smoke, or do any drugs, not because of some religious or superstitious nonsense, but simply because I never truly cared for them. Even as a child, peer pressure never worked on me. If my so-called associates insulted me for not engaging in activities I don't care for, I would tell them that if they want to do such things, it's their choice, but they won't use me to reinforce their bad habits.
@@TheRealSpeedWolf there should be more people like you. all the drugs, even sugar, are pushed on the people by the most rich in the world. that is how they keep the people under control. they only made it illegal because that increases use.
You guys do the best videos. Honest Guide Rocks!
HHC Is basically the THC Compound but they added an extra Oxygen link in the compound which basically improves the efficiency that HHC BINDs to your CB1 and CB2 Receptors almost 30x more efficient than THC. It's nolonger called the compound THC but HHC or HHC-O or THC - O. It DOES GET YOU HIGH.
i baught a thc vape from prague from the shop you showed at the beghining of the vid, it kicked me so hard omg
I've been to Pague and went to a few of this store and it was always seems a bit suspicous so I didn't buy anything. After a few days there I went to one of those stores and the nice lady there told me for sure that everyone's lying and the weed does not contains THC ans the ones who contains HHC is toxic. She was so honest and nice (She sold at a weed shop as well) and did not try to scam tourist it really shows that there are good people
@Christos Montariou I don’t really know it’s just what I’ve been told. She also said it’s synthetic. I don’t think she had any special reason to lie to me overall it’s just what I’ve been told
its hhc they just say its thc, who cares, people that want to get high get high and all is good, hhc is non toxic there are just no laws around it
it is synthetically derived however is non-toxic
HHC isn't toxic, it's just as safe as normal THC weed. Also I bet you a lot of these shops are selling real THC weed, it's not like cops are walking in and testing each weed from every shop, it would be very easy for the shops to get away with selling real weed. Weed is technically illegal to sell in The Netherlands but the shops are all selling real weed because the cops tolerate the sale of weed.
Hahaha, the street that is a city within a city. I feel the exact same about the centre of Amsterdam. Nice to see you guys did your research on the HHC stuff. No judgement, just very good journalism. Thank you guys
_"Journalism"_
LMAO some dudes recording a video for CZcams with 0 investigation.
@@Ulexcool Well, if you look at what usually gets written about anything cannabis related it's REALLY hard to find an observation. It's either very pro or very con. This was just 'hey, here's what we saw.' I liked that. Ofc it's not an in depth analysis, but that wouldnt be fitting for the channel. Just let me appreciate these guys man. I like their style
HHC actually works and gets you high unlike CDB.
@Christos Montariou So keep smoking haha
These guys could have done better research and actually tested the product to see if it gets you high or not so it was more accurate, or they could have at least asked some people if they tried smoking the weed from these stores to see if it got them high, that would have been good journalism. The truth is a lot of these stores are actually selling weed with THC in them, they aren't lying to people, the police just tolerate it. It's like how in The Netherlands it's illegal to sell weed but the police tolerate the coffee shops.
I googled if it was legal before heading out there this past weekend and it said it wasn’t, imagine my surprise when I saw all of these shops lol I knew they weren’t going to be legit. Glad I didn’t stop by and trusted my instinct
This is why I appreciate my small town because they want your business so they don’t try to scam you
Back in 2017, on a trip to Prague, we went into a seed store where they sold cannabis seeds. The store employee told us it’s against the law to sell weed but selling seeds is ok. Will you cover this on a future video?
edit was at a cool bar called Bezelpub and watched a guy roll a cannabis joint and smoke it. Right there in the bar. It was the day before the city wide ban on smoking indoors was to go into effect.
As far as I know, seeds don't contain THC, so selling them is actually legal-ish :D
Its actually the same loophole, they sell them as "collectibles"
Those seeds are the real thing, though, and there was a period of confusion between the state, the police and the city, whether they should be actually banned or not, and I'm not sure how it ended. They are not illicit businesses, however they had to operate in cash for a while, because banks were not really sure if they are legal or not, either
In many european countries its completely legal to grow 1-2 bushes, nothing to cover here as you answered the question yourself. Seeds are completely legal
@@bohdankopcak296 it is legal, right now i can visit like 6 different sites where i can buy northern light seeds or goerilla glue 5 seeds for about 20€
@@bohdankopcak296 I can almost guarantee a lot of these stores are selling real THC weed, it's not like cops are walking in and testing each strain of weed for THC. In The Netherlands it's technically illegal to sell weed but you still see coffee shops all over Amsterdam, the cops just tolerate the sale of soft-drugs. I'm sure a similar thing is happening in Prague.
@@ChrisM-bn5vr You sound like you run one of these scam shops.
There’s nothing better than a good old dealer, you get more personal touch, and your shopping have to be of a certain quality as otherwise you’ll stop using his services.
Skips like that are for kids and tourists 😂
I use to go to the cannabis cup in Prague, think it was in Roxy? It was pretty powerful stuff and you could smoke in the club.
We have the same problem in the USA, Hemp Flowers sprayed with Synthetic Cannabinoids like Delta 8/10, HHC, etc...
I've been to prague last summer and ofc we also went into a few of these shops. All of them were selling cbd or hhc except one: We bought some and it was 100% normal thc weed. We were confused how this could be legal but at the end just enjoyed ir😅
Where?
Where bro
I guarantee a lot of these shops are selling real weed, it's probably similar to what happens in The Netherlands, it's technically illegal to sell weed In The Netherlands but the coffee shops still operate all over Amsterdam, the police just tolerate them so they operate in a grey-zone. I'm sure the same thing is happening in Prague.
Placebo effect?
@@alexri.804 Definitely not Placebo effect, the weed contains HHC which gets you high. A lot of them actually have real THC weed too.
I feel so spoiled in California meanwhile others have to deal with ghetto stores like these
Send some to the uk 🇬🇧 🫶🏻 👍🏻 Our government keep the good shit for special events.
While us citizens receive a day in court and a £300 fine for a £20 bag 😢