In the US where ethanol is legal you can go to the liquor store and buy ethanol that comes in a wide range of flavors, concentrations, liquids, etc. But it is all ethanol.
I’ve never been to a legal pot dispensary but I’m under the impression it is the same way. A wide range of ways to buy THC and CBD in a wide range of flavors, concentrations, doses, ways to ingest, etc.
So are there stores anywhere on earth where this applies to other recreational substances?
I think there are some shops in the US where Kratom or Kava are sold like this. But what about anywhere that sells 100 different versions of cocaine, or opiates, or PCP (food, drink, different flavors, different doses, etc)?
Basically, you can go to a liquor store and find 100 different concoctions based on ethanol. You can go to a pot dispensary and find 100 concoctions based on THC & CBD. Are there stores where you can find 100 different concoctions of opiates, PCP, cocaine, or other drugs? Where you can get PCP mixed into a drink, but there are 20 different flavors and concentrations?
I guess cigarettes/nicotine and coffee/caffeine also count. They are both recreational drugs, and you can go into a store that has 100 different flavors and styles of smoking products or coffee.
Your friendly neighborhood pharmacy probably has several dozen different dosage forms (and that does include liquids in assorted flavors, and possibly even chewable tablets as well) of opiates. That doesn’t mean they’re intended for recreational use.
A pharmaceutical sales rep I know once worked for a company that had an opiod lollipop. Seemed like a brilliant idea to me. The child self-medicated until too drowsy to ingest any more.
There was much criticism about kids treating medicine like candy. My friend’s sales numbers were not good, and she switched jobs.
I’ve seen psychedelic mushrooms for sale in Amsterdam similar to what you describe. There was a grid with different categories - body high, visuals, euphoria, etc. Different strains had different numerical ratings for each. I’m skeptical, though. Other than that, I’ve never heard of mushrooms being categorized in that way.
I recently moved to Oregon from California, and recreational use is legal here. It took me a long time to wrap my brain around it. There’s a store right down the street from my house. In California you have to have a medical card, but they are ridiculously easy to get. Everybody I knew back home had one. It would seem to me to be impossible to set up a retail operation such as you are describing anywhere in the world, at least at this time. The closest thing I can think of to what you’re describing are legal (or perhaps ‘quasi-legal’ would be a better way to put it) psychoactive substances such as tianeptine or etizolam which are sold through the Internet. There is a tiny little store in Portland that sells gram bags of tianeptine, but it’s bunk. I bought a bag and tested it. It wasn’t tianeptine in any way, shape, or form.
Not anymore. CA just legalized recreational with last month’s election. It will take a while until stores are officially licensed to sell recreational, but some dispensaries are already selling to people without a medical card anyway.