The difference is you can't taste other people's alcohol but you can smell others' smoke

Dutch coffee shops, you mean?

that's just a "coffee" shop in Netherlands

This is quite common in The Netherlands. They're called coffeeshops.

That’s already a reality in some places. San Francisco, New York, and Amsterdam are some examples.

I went to one in Thailand. Got to borrow a bong and play billiards and Uno and stuff, it was a real nice and comfortable little place

Your dealers home: Am I a joke to you?

Its hard to justify it for the same reasons we can't have Shisha bars and smoking lounges (at least where I live): 2nd hand smoke.

I can, as a non drinker, go to a bar and have myself a soda, and leave there as sober as when I walked in. If I do that in a room where everyone is smoking up, I will get high from the second hand smoke whether I want to for not.

I mean, why not just have a general social club with coffee/food, games, etc, and just step outside for a puff?

There are some board game cafes in the states. And some of those overlap with legal weed :) but smoking indoors in public is still a no-go

I've always thought this too. It's so crazy how acceptable alcohol use is compared to cannabis use when it comes to socializing for things like work.

A bar near me has a few cocktails that use 5mg delta9 THC instead of alcohol.

All of their alcoholic drinks can also be upgraded with 5mg thc for a few bucks more.

They've got this in Amsterdam but I would say it's less accessible than bars/alcohol generally due to how polluted the air gets (despite the best efforts of filtration)

Bay Area guy here. We have quite a few cannabis lounges.

California has a few of these and they’re awesome! Ive seen them in Humboldt county and LA

I like to get and be high alone though

There have been a few private clubs in Colorado that allow this. It tends to be bring-your-own but you can smoke and do whatever once inside after buying a membership. Apparently they’re opening more official places called consumption lounges - one is opening on Colfax in Denver soon, apparently.

The issue is that a lot of people that smoke weed in place would reak. I don't think many people would enjoy the smell

There are a number of coffee shops exactly like that in Cape Town

Speaking as a smoker: it's a great idea until someone manages to start a fire (or deliberately sets one.) Also smoky interiors get uncleanably grimy FAST.

we have cannabis lounges where I live. it's mostly for tourists that cannot consume in their hotel rooms. no outside products allowed, a menu is provided along with rigs, vaporizers, bongs, etc.

If they replaced individual bars rather than expanded the space where drug consumption is the basis of socializing.

This is a great way to make a 30 minute game into a two hour game. Source: years and years of trying it.

Lol, they'd have the busiest kitchen in town.

For the ones complaining of smell, Ill take the weed perfume over vomit dipped alcoholics any day.

More friendly environment w/dry vaporizers (bag, whip, or portable/maybe extract) so there's no smoke (under 200C, convection-based) (and note the lack of cotton-candy scented steam clouds that people hate about flavored ecigs/liquid vape pens). Also edibles and the like... but that's just time-delay dosed food.

I would say that drinking is a longer/more gradual experience so has more reason for a dedicated space. Though I guess the passable options that I mentioned could draw the experience out, but I've never done that so I'm not sure what that's like compared to one-and-done/hanging-out-when-high.

(though as others have said, it is a thing)