Europe Euphoria

It is unlikely that a European smoke ban is going to harm this country’s popular culture. Cannabis and caffeine, image credit: TomBonger Marijuana Cannabis Coffee Shop, Amsterdam, Image Credit: Athina Cafe owners promise to buck a possible ban on smoking tobacco in the Netherlands, where a policy of "tolerance," allows people to own less than 5g of cannabis in Amsterdam. Marijuana Cannabis Coffee Shop, Amsterdam, Image Credit: Athina A local conservative politician and coffee shop owner Michael Veling believes that the trippers will still get a chance to smoke up. Weed menu, Image credit: Wizard He says the clientele who have been coming to coffee shops to buy and inhale cannabis are flexible enough to find a way around any ban on smoking the tobacco products they routinely mix with marijuana resin or leaf in rolled paper "joints." Rolling a joint on cigarette paper A tobacco-smoking ban, which could come into force at the start of 2008, may infact boost the use of some of the weirder contraptions used for inhaling the active part of marijuana, THC(Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) , which gives users a high. This includes the use of pipes or the ‘volcano.’ Volcano bag full, Image credit: kozyndan The volcano or vaporizer heats cannabis to release vapors of THC and channels these into a long transparent balloon.