In Sweden you have to go to a state owned store to get alcohol.

>>72702464
does the gov't control all the prices also?

>>72702526
yup and it's all taxed to hell

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>>72702464
same here

>>72702597
because you are Sweden 2.0

>>72702631
But our Alko was founded 23 years earlier

>>72702464
Ahh yes, the proud nordics, vikings to the core

Sad cunts

>>72702680
sucks. i had this image that finns drink so much vodka and beer i thought u were cool.

>>72702703
>tfw no freedom

>>72702554
ah, it's kinda like Pennsylvania then. the gov't there controls all alcohol price and won't let you order anything online for cheaper alcohol and ship it to your house

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>>72702464
>he doesn't just travel to Germany or Poland instead

>>72702767
wtf..in the land of the free?

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What a nanny state, here you can buy """bath oil""" from vending machine on street.

>>72702464
What is the penalty for growing your own weed?

>>72702880
they have prob the strictest alcohol laws in america. they even regulate what hours the stores can actually sell alcohol too. has to something to do with their quaker history i think

Same here, but you can also go to brewery to buy beer.

>>72702935
Depend on how much you grow, but you could minimum get fined, and max is 10 years.

>>72702935
actually legal if you're a registered weed grower and you keep THC low enough.
but legalized weed growers are fucking themselves by not followign regulation, so people that do usually get their permission revoked.

>>72702903
GOD BLESS ROSSIYA

>>72702856
Danmark/Tyskland när man bor nere i Skåne. vågar mig nog inte till Polen

>>72703001
fucking sucks

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>>72702703
wish we could be alphas as you

>>72703282
Polen är ett härligt land

t. sydöstsvensk

>>72702880
There's a few states that do this here, it's very unamerican.

>>72702464
In Russia, store comes to you to buy alcohol!

>>72702903
It looks completely normal until I realize that it's on the fucking street for easy access. Fucking hell, do people just mix it in with water or something and drink that?

>>72702903
what is that exactly?

>>72703738
>people in his country doesn't drink hand sanitize

>>72703798
its just cheap alcohol alternatives to get drunk on but its been killing a number of russian

>>72702464
Does it at least have a drive-thru?

>>72703839
Yes, but mostly just in Mississippi.

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>>72702464
lol idktf

>>72703862
So nothing bad t b h

>>72703876
Good one mate

>>72703880
They steal it in the hospitals here

>>72702464

What about small towns and villages? Is it the same for pubs/bars?

>>72703943
there is a systembolaget in every little town across Sweden.

you can drink at 18 at pubs and bars but 20 to buy at systembolaget

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>>72702597
It's ok, Pekka. Viro is here for you.

>>72703738
Hobos usually drink it with one shot from the bottle
>>72703798
85% ethanol. Sometimes, like last year, methanol.

>>72703980

And no one else is allowed to sell alcohol? That's very gommie Sweden

>his country doesn't have off licenses

laughing at all of you

>>72704122
bars and pubs can sell but they have to buy it from bolaget i think and then sell and you need a license to sell it.

yup up

>>72702554
At least beer is cheaper in Sweden than in Finland.

>>72704122
Stores can sell up to 3,5%

But everyone in the south buys alcohol abroad anyway

>>72704167
Permits are given by the municipality the bar is operating in, they can also demand that you have guards

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>>72702464
So what do students/cheap fucks drink?

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>>72704046
Yep that's good

>>72704182
Here it's 4,7% max, and even that tastes like watered down shit. I've never tasted "folköl" but I can imagine that being even worse.

>>72704616
Why do you need to get drunk?

>>72704616
4.7 sound pretty nice desu

>>72704683

You're not one of those ""I don't need alcohol to have fun" faggots right?

>>72704683
I don't get drunk that often desu. I just feel like most 4,7% doesn't taste nearly as good as some stronger ones do.

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>>72704046
>Eesti will raise the alcohol tax

in Sweden alcohol is haram

>>72702464
Same thing in NH, Virginia, and a few other states. Strangely not in New York or California.

>>72702464
>>72702554
no wonder that i always see so many swedes tourist here in germany buy tons of alcohol.

>tfw 24/7 free delivery booze

Feels good

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>>72702880
Some states are liberal shitholes.

>>72706471
In every state I've been in they will sell be and wine up to at least 14%abv at the grocery store though

>>72704826
I never have fun anyway. I would be a miserable drunk.

>>72706627
think we're talking about state controlled alcohol laws and dictating that price throughout. there's only a handful of states that does this with PA being the strictest

>>72704826
You dont need alcohol to have fun.

But just like you dont need running shoes to run, but it fucking helps.

>>72706566
hiho

I can buy beer at the gas station

In the Czech Republic all booze was banned a few years ago.

Whiskey

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Well if you're lacking you can always go to gas station and buy some windshield washer fluid and drink that if you're brave enough.

Wales is where dreams go to die.

>>72702526
The prices are generally really reasonable. They don't spend money on advertisements and generally try to keep it somewhat competitive. What pushes the prices up is the extensive alcohol tax, but that would be a thing even if every other store sold liquor.

The good thing about Systembolaget is that their assortment of wine, beer, ciders etc is way more extensive than it would be if it was entirely controlled by the market. You can find some really obscure stuff there, even in small towns that would probably just sell the five most popular beer sorts otherwise. If they don't have it in stock, you can ask them to order it in and they will.

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>>72707137
>The prices are generally really reasonable
>way more extensive than it would be if it was entirely controlled by the market

>>72707194
>visit shithole town with 4,000 inhabitants
>it has a small grocery store and a systembolaget of equal size selling microbrews and wines they probably sell two bottles of a year

Outside of big specialist stores you won't find that kind of assortment abroad. The market doesn't gravitate towards brand diversity; it's not worth it to stack the shelves with alternative brands when the big ones sell way more. The high taxes is what pushes the price, not some greedy monopoly bullshit.

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>>72707290
>not some greedy monopoly bullshit

>>72704182
That's fucked

Here they're hopefully raising the limit from 4.7% to 5.5% in a year or so

Homemade mead is pretty good tbqhwy

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>>72707420
Or just ban it altogether. I saw a guy taking a leak in public today, do you think he was sober?

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>>72702464
>>72702597
bretty clever desu

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>>72704683
>Why do you need to get drunk?

i drink the for the taste

>>72707510
Ah yes, because banning alcohol has always worked out perfectly in the past

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>>72707510
>Or just ban it altogether.

Tried that before, people just started to do shit themselves.

>>72707510
Doesn't work, just creates more problems

>>72707581
>>72707601
>>72707620
Can't we poison all alcohol and not tell people then? I think they did that in America once.

>>72702464>>72702597

Soon in Russia.

>>72702464
Disgusting

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>>72707630
>Can't we poison all alcohol and not tell people then?

>Or just ban it altogether.

>>72707630
Doesn't work, just creates more problems

>>72707707
Y'know I do believe that would remove more problems than it would create

>>72707630
it was kool-aid at the jamestown colony in guyana if you were refering to taht

>>72707743
You'd think that but 10,000 bodies and and extensive black market says otherwise

>>72707932
*a

>>72702464
Ours are provincial, technically; in reality, it's basically a sanctioned monopoly in conjunction with big brewers.

>>72707885
Not him, but I think there was some thing where people in one city or state just started putting poison in the alkohol to get people to stop buying it. This was some prohibition movement, not a cult like jamestown.

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>>72708125
oh oops, never heard about that then

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>tfw nykterist

>>72704616
We have 4,7% max aswell, and swedish store beer is called Donaldöl in South Eastern Norway.

We also travel to Sweden to buy their state governed alcohol, as it's cheaper than our state governed alcohol.

>>72708372
probably because everything costs a fuckton in norway thanks to oil money

>>72706566
Liberal in for a non-american would imply no alcohol monopoly. The american political landscape is a bit confused.

>>72708125
Yeah that was the u.s. federal government

>>72708533
Yeah, I tried getting drunk on folköl once, it's quite the challenge and the endresult felt rather lacking

>>72702464
At least Systembolaget is cheap af.

>>72704450
Anything with alcohol that does not make you blind or contain denature. At least ones like me.

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I drank an alcohol once and it was terrible

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>>72708625
Good guys. Who'd want to dampen their mental faculties with alcohol anyway? Certainly not someone society has any use for.

>>72708125
They put methanol and other shit in denatured alcohol/methylated spirits, which people drank regardless of it being poisonous because they wanted to get drunk. I believe it was labeled as poisonous.

>>72704762
The thing is that all the old finnish lagers have been designed to have 5,4% before the law changed, so it tastes watered down anyways.

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>>72708781
>jvdk

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Good thing we have Estonia

>>72707094
That would be very gross cultural appropriation my Finnish friend.

>>72704450
moonshine and homemade wine

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>>72704450
Anything that does the job and i feel like spending my little money on.

>>72708797
You sound like a fun person to be around

>>72703001
fuck are you on about
if you go to bodegas or local delis with a fake id, they will just sell you alcohol. If they wont sell alcohol to people with fake ids, the fake ids will just go to another place that serves fake ids.

>>72704450
Piss water

>>72709104
no, the fuck are you on about.. we're not talking about being able buying alcohol or not, but rather the state government controlling prices. you may not be in a state like PA that does that but doesnt mean there arent any... read up on it bro or have some better reading comphrehension

>>72707290
>visit shithole town with 4,000 inhabitants
that's not true. My 8k town has any sort of microbrews and expensive liqueurs you can think of.

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>>72709104
>needing a fake id
just ask the cashier if he will sell it. It's not like you are going to turn him in.

>>72709326
nigger said
>strictest alcohol laws in america

>>72709762
won't work unless you go to projects
>i tried it

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>>72709104

>tfw I rarely have to show my papers when buying no-no things anymore

who /yukon jack/ hea

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>>72703404

>Well Street