Why Are There So Many Weed Shops in Prague?!

Is is legal? What these shops sell? And what lies will they tell you to make the sale?

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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Janek Rubeš & Honza Mikulka, Prague based journalists
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[SpaghettiniFiveMillion]

Forget the false advertising and THC, those shops should be banned for the hideous looking storefronts alone.

[biiigdaaaddy]

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[wolf]

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.

[monkeyx]

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[Akrucious]

I'm more surprised there were that many morally honest vendors in the area than shady ones, kudos to you for showing both sides.

[since]

40 euro for one gram?!? Even if it was real, that would be an obscene level of ripping someone off!!

[grossi]

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.

[oakkblackbird]

LMFAO @ Snoop's pictures on the signs and stickers at shops 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[vmpre]

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.

[domnno]

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.

[SapphireUnique]

been in te exact same shop seen in this video and they woman behind counter lied to me as well saying it has thc lmfao

[revolter]

Fast and easy explaination for those cannabis shops: They usually don't sell products with THC (the component of weed which makes you high). That substance is cannot be sold legally in the Czech Republic, what isn't banned are substances like CBD, HHC and THC-p. And those are the substances which you can usually buy in those cannabis shops. But don't be fooled, those substances can get you just as high as regular THC if not even more with THC-p. HHC is a half-synthetic cannabinoid which makes you high, THC-p being an isolated natural product found in Cannabis which also makes you high, CBD being a cannabinoid which doesn't make you high. The flowers which are being sold are often CBD flowers with, the HHC flowers are often just CBD flowers with HHC sprayed on them. In rare instances, the shops are selling actual THC flowers, labeled as HHC flowers but those are rare instances.

[burkeiowa]

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.

[kmayasobru]

As a Dutch person I was shocked by the amount of weed shops in the city centre

[Alphoric]

3:43 that’s a bad way of acting out a lollipop 😂

[shterle]

I was in Prague about 7-8 yrs ago. I could swear, there weren’t that many weed shops as today. It’s crazy.

[rolexmongerthethird]

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

[BobZombie]

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.

[jirikv]

Dobrá práce, Janku. Díky za všechny informované cizince.

[noahmerkley]

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.