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

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

does the gov't control all the prices also?

yup and it's all taxed to hell

same here

because you are Sweden 2.0

But our Alko was founded 23 years earlier

Ahh yes, the proud nordics, vikings to the core

Sad cunts

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

>tfw no freedom

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

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

wtf..in the land of the free?

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

What is the penalty for growing your own weed?

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.

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

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.

GOD BLESS ROSSIYA

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

fucking sucks

wish we could be alphas as you

Polen är ett härligt land

t. sydöstsvensk

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

In Russia, store comes to you to buy alcohol!

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?

what is that exactly?

>people in his country doesn't drink hand sanitize

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

Does it at least have a drive-thru?

Yes, but mostly just in Mississippi.

lol idktf

So nothing bad t b h

Good one mate

They steal it in the hospitals here

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

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

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

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

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

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

At least beer is cheaper in Sweden than in Finland.

Stores can sell up to 3,5%

But everyone in the south buys alcohol abroad anyway

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

So what do students/cheap fucks drink?

Yep that's good

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.

Why do you need to get drunk?

4.7 sound pretty nice desu

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

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.

>Eesti will raise the alcohol tax

in Sweden alcohol is haram

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

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

Some states are liberal shitholes.

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

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

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

You dont need alcohol to have fun.

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

hiho

I can buy beer at the gas station

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

Whiskey

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.

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.

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

>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.

>not some greedy monopoly bullshit

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

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

bretty clever desu

>Why do you need to get drunk?

i drink the for the taste

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

>Or just ban it altogether.

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

Doesn't work, just creates more problems

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

Soon in Russia.

Disgusting

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

>Or just ban it altogether.

Doesn't work, just creates more problems

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

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

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

*a

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

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.

oh oops, never heard about that then

>tfw nykterist

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.

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

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

Yeah that was the u.s. federal government

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

At least Systembolaget is cheap af.

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

I drank an alcohol once and it was terrible

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

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.

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.

>jvdk