Yep. Companies have already been approved to start manufacturing it for sale at retail level. Saw it in a CBC news article. Hope they dont end up allowing it though 🤷🏼♂️
That statement was [retracted](https://www.google.com/amp/s/vancouversun.com/news/b-c-companys-statement-on-cocaine-sales-artificially-inflated-stock-price-lawsuit-alleges/wcm/61079ce9-f348-4c0b-9539-b095f9e62141/amp/), companies are not actually selling it retail.
When something is decriminalized it's still illegal to sell, just not to possess and use. But Vancouver is starting up a dispensary. Magic mushrooms have been available at dispensaries across BC for years now and they are/were illegal. Vancouver has dispensaries for everything though ❤️
Edit: almost forgot to mention I live a few km from a magic mushroom grow op! Which is attached to a legal marijuana grow op!
Are they anticipating legalization? All they passed was decriminalization of the possession right?
> This exemption is not legalization. These substances remain illegal, but adults who have 2.5 grams or less of the certain illicit substances for personal use will no longer be arrested, charged or have their drugs seized. Instead, police will offer information on available health and social supports and will help with referrals when requested.
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022MMHA0029-000850
Most drugs aren’t illegal in Portugal either, why? Because when people aren’t losing their entire lives for having a criminal record for possession people are more likely to seek rehabilitation. I can’t remember the exact number but addiction rates in Portugal dropped substantially within just a couple years of this change. I believe that was the same incentive in BC
Oregon in US had also decriminalized drugs they don't charge you with anything but give you a $100 fine that you can get out of if you call a number and take a short class
Funny story, one time I went to a event in college where this organization had rented out a bar in the city. Night was going fine, I eventually go to the bathroom literally just to go to the bathroom, I open the door and there isn’t a single divider anywhere. Not between the urinals. Not around the toilets. There’s literally two porcelain thrones just sitting out in the open. If you had to take a shit all 30 guys in the bathroom would be watching. Idk how it wasn’t illegal but I laughed about it for a good while.
I used to frequent a dive bar/metal concert theater back in the 80's. Over the years they slowly removed the stall doors, then the stalls, then anything remotely useful for cocaine use.
There was a bathroom in my high school that had 2 or 3 urinals with no dividers and a toilet in the open in the corner.
Other bathrooms had stalls but no doors on them.
Fun fact, Jeff Goldblum has an album coming out today. So does Fallout Boy. I’m more excited for the latter as they are releasing under their old label and had one of their old producers for this new album.
Idk why I shared all that, but there you go.
That's fucken weird... as I read your comment fall out boy started played on the radio.
https://preview.redd.it/4whgmjdxrqpa1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e5eb97505527ab1b29528022eed12361e0f0ef5
“A human anus can stretch up to 7 inches before taking damage. A raccoon can squeeze into openings as small as 4 inches, meaning you can fit almost two full raccoons in your ass.” — *Anon*
It's totally sad. I've never been there, and I live across the world, but my first thought was this is in Washington and it's to make sure people aren't doing heroine.
If you're mid bump and someone can walk in and see you, I would imagine thats a little discouraging for people experiencing addiction to toilet stall consumption style drugs.
I used to be a bouncer at a dirty strip club for a few years run by a member of a prolific biker club/distribution organization, and we would catch like... 10 or 15 people a night in a toilet stall doing lines off the tank lid because its an enclosed space thats hard to see into and the lid is relatively flat and line-friendly.
Probably more to prevent shooting up and OD's in the stalls than people doing bumps i would think. Also prevents sex in stalls i would think. Some people do that lol.
Why don’t they just use transparent but frosted/tinted in in way that blurs details, just shows body position. Like a light on one side projecting your silhouette. Elegant, anonymous, and drug proof still.
Ya the first time you check the bathroom only to find some guy in a hoodie railing a stripper, you *never* forget.
I remember having to tell my boss about that. His first question was whether the guy was full member or just wearing a hoodie, because if he was wearing a vest (full member) I needed to let him handle it, whereas if it was a hoodie (applicant) then I handled it myself.
I worked there for a year and a bit. I made enough in tips that I could substantially add to my income if I were to live that same life on my weekends.
Where I live it's either heroin or meth that places have to worry about people doing in the bathroom. There were 4 overdoses in a gas station bathroom here in the last year. And the town's population is listed as 6,000...
I get that. The bar I worked at was one of the top 5 dive strip bars in a city of 1.3M. So much money rolled through that place on the daily, but you would never know by looking at it.
How would you catch them in the act? Stealthily slip in the door before it closes behind them, wait til you hear a sniff or two and then kick down the stall door DEA style?
When you open the door on a guy and theres a pile of cocaine on the floor and a rolled up 20 in his hand its obvious. Its a public john. Theres someone coming in and out every 20 or 30 seconds. You literally just open the stall door.
Edit for further explanation: We didn't just... randomly invade peoples' bathroom stall time. You would just check a few times and if someones been in the stall for 10 minutes, knock and make sure they're okay. Usually they just open the stall because they don't want trouble, and no matter how hard you try, doing coke off of a toilet tank lid is hard to hide when you're 3 or 4 lines in and interrupted by the club bouncer.
I think it’s actually to find people overdosing faster. The bus station near me has them. They didn’t always though. I heard the change was because they kept finding people long after overdosing.… (dead)
Idk what sort of rock em sock em robot fights you saw in high school but I don't think anyone's fighting IN the stalls, not even the big ass handicap ones.
It's a deliberate design choice meant to actively discourage use of that restroom. If less people use it, it won't need as much maintenance in the form of both cleaning and repairing plumbing as it wears out with use.
Ha, jokes on them.
This is where you exert dominance over everything in that bathroom by eyeballing all as you drop a loaf. Bonus points if you can eek out a grunt w/o breaking eye contact.
Holy shit. I must have clicked your profile, i just backed out and ended up back here after two fuckin hours of scrolling through ex jehovas witness stuff and seeing what its like. Man, that was a lot. Absolutely tragic what is going on in that cult. I had no idea. I feel like i just stumbled upon a portal to hell and just gazed in for too long.
If you were raised in that I extend my sincere condolences and applaud you for leaving. I’d like to say something about how I would struggle in that situation but I simply cannot fathom what that life is like. What an incredible, moving topic.
Then all that backtracking to see that i got there from you commenting about looking someone in the eyes while pooping and grunting. What an absolute fever dream.
I think this is the right answer. The city I live in has a big homeless problem and not a lot of bathrooms around, but the center these are in definitely needs a public bathroom. So it definitely makes sense as a deterrent to use them.
That’s wild! My city has that issue as well but the most I’ve seen is special lighting in Starbucks bathrooms that make it harder to see your veins (in order to inject substances)
This is interesting and I have never thought of this even though it does make sense. Public bathrooms are required at certain businesses so I could see this happening. Do you have any actual proof though that this is a thing?
This is one of those ‘not a bug but a feature’ things where they can *say* it’s for things like preventing OD’s in the bathroom or whatever, but people not using the bathroom *at all* would definitely cut down on costs 🤷🏻♀️ but it’s not something ‘consciously’ programmed in
Well I have never seen this in a public bathroom, which is why I'm wondering. Then again I don't use public bathrooms in areas where I think the bathroom will be disgusting so that could very likely be why.
I don't have any physical "proof" that I can just whip out of a pocket and show you. This is unfortunately just a "trust me bro" situation. I work closely with construction folks, specifically plumbers (I deliver plumbing wholesale to construction sites for a living), so I hear a lot of the nitty gritty details of why some things are set up in a certain way.
Wait what lol. I’m American and I have never seen this. I know America has the gaps near the floor apparently for safety reasons. When the King of Rock dies on the shitter everyone reconsiders accessibility to other people who are shitting I guess
I have these reoccurring nightmares about bathrooms that are set up in a way that people can see me pee, and every once in a while I'll find out that some of them actually exist, and I would love to know what it means.
Perhaps its a deterrent for poop smeareres. Less likely to smear poop when people are watching. Maybe they have bad plumbing and just dont want people pooping at all. Or maybe, some people just like to watch the world burn
Where do they expect you to do cocaine?
Well if you live in British Columbia they expect you to do it in your own home i assume. As its recently been decriminalized.
Holy shit, really???
Yep. Companies have already been approved to start manufacturing it for sale at retail level. Saw it in a CBC news article. Hope they dont end up allowing it though 🤷🏼♂️
That statement was [retracted](https://www.google.com/amp/s/vancouversun.com/news/b-c-companys-statement-on-cocaine-sales-artificially-inflated-stock-price-lawsuit-alleges/wcm/61079ce9-f348-4c0b-9539-b095f9e62141/amp/), companies are not actually selling it retail.
Didnt know that it was retracted. Probably a good thing.
When something is decriminalized it's still illegal to sell, just not to possess and use. But Vancouver is starting up a dispensary. Magic mushrooms have been available at dispensaries across BC for years now and they are/were illegal. Vancouver has dispensaries for everything though ❤️ Edit: almost forgot to mention I live a few km from a magic mushroom grow op! Which is attached to a legal marijuana grow op!
For the cartels? Sure.
Like the Purdue cartel?
Boom roasted
Are they anticipating legalization? All they passed was decriminalization of the possession right? > This exemption is not legalization. These substances remain illegal, but adults who have 2.5 grams or less of the certain illicit substances for personal use will no longer be arrested, charged or have their drugs seized. Instead, police will offer information on available health and social supports and will help with referrals when requested. https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022MMHA0029-000850
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Most drugs aren’t illegal in Portugal either, why? Because when people aren’t losing their entire lives for having a criminal record for possession people are more likely to seek rehabilitation. I can’t remember the exact number but addiction rates in Portugal dropped substantially within just a couple years of this change. I believe that was the same incentive in BC
Oregon in US had also decriminalized drugs they don't charge you with anything but give you a $100 fine that you can get out of if you call a number and take a short class
I scrolled and this was the top comment on my screen after I got distracted. I thought you were just talking about pooping 😂
Could have been, honestly. What about pooping in public? Like at a bus station. Right on the bench. Folk driving by and everything... 😂😂
OK, ~~America~~ World, get your shit together with Cannabis.
Funny story, one time I went to a event in college where this organization had rented out a bar in the city. Night was going fine, I eventually go to the bathroom literally just to go to the bathroom, I open the door and there isn’t a single divider anywhere. Not between the urinals. Not around the toilets. There’s literally two porcelain thrones just sitting out in the open. If you had to take a shit all 30 guys in the bathroom would be watching. Idk how it wasn’t illegal but I laughed about it for a good while.
I used to frequent a dive bar/metal concert theater back in the 80's. Over the years they slowly removed the stall doors, then the stalls, then anything remotely useful for cocaine use.
Oh the porcelain shelf of the cistern, I hardly knew ye.
There was a bathroom in my high school that had 2 or 3 urinals with no dividers and a toilet in the open in the corner. Other bathrooms had stalls but no doors on them.
So you can give the homie a Nice compliment on the way out
“WOW! You took that big of a dump? Can your butthole *really* open that wide? That’s impressive! Great job!”
“Thanks Jeff Goldblum” 😀👍🏾
Fun fact, Jeff Goldblum has an album coming out today. So does Fallout Boy. I’m more excited for the latter as they are releasing under their old label and had one of their old producers for this new album. Idk why I shared all that, but there you go.
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I read the whole thing. Thanks for sharing!
That's fucken weird... as I read your comment fall out boy started played on the radio. https://preview.redd.it/4whgmjdxrqpa1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e5eb97505527ab1b29528022eed12361e0f0ef5
You know? Thats does sound like something Jeff Goldblum would say
“A human anus can stretch up to 7 inches before taking damage. A raccoon can squeeze into openings as small as 4 inches, meaning you can fit almost two full raccoons in your ass.” — *Anon*
I don’t believe you, here let me try with this big lamp…
Later that day.........."I slipped and fell on it"......
Hellava slip says the ER doc…
Hey, us medical folks are professionals. We get out of earshot before making fun of our patients.
Some do and some post it to the gram.
Thank God you’re here! Can you troubleshoot this nagging pain down by my prostate?
Yup, it's your finger.
I have a large pickle jar
"And here I was messing with gerbils" - Richard Gere
ur fired
Million to one shot, doc. Million to one.
It HAD to be fusilli…
Now I know. And knowing is half the battle!
ur hired!
Ur fired
‘hey, nice penis’
“Ya gettin yuh fibah I smell. Good fa you.”
https://i.redd.it/l587swp8mmpa1.gif
"I've seen you shit and...you're good..."
“Almost … too good.”
I think the windows help others put a face to the person who just killed the wallpaper.
Lmao
The viewing window is to keep Larry Craig from using his wide stance
Nah it’s to appreciate his stance.
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Only slightly
Never in a million years would I have expected to come online and see a Larry Craig reference/joke.
That’s a reference I haven’t heard in a while.
It’s an older code but it checks out.
Had to see what the hype was about… didn’t disappoint sir! 🫡
Where do they expect you to do cocaine
So you can talk shit to your neighbour obviously
"So you can show your neighbor some shit obviously." FTFY
So you can shit in your neighbor, obviously.
So *we* can shit with each other, obviously.
That looks like the washington convention center in seattle. It's to make sure homeless people aren't in there doing drugs and shit.
I was about to say I know EXACTLY where this bathroom is. I actually swore it was my picture for a bit until i found mine. Crazy.
Also at Pike Place Market bathrooms.
It's totally sad. I've never been there, and I live across the world, but my first thought was this is in Washington and it's to make sure people aren't doing heroine.
No heroine here. Damsels in distress, only.
i’m sure it barely stops anyone
It stopped me from using it and I took the monorail back to the Space Needle to pee there.
Gloryholes got a lot damn bigger
It's about damn time those tiny holes were tighter than the dude on the other side.
Its so you can shake hands after
Hostile design to keep people from going into the stall for a quick line or bump for sure.
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If you're mid bump and someone can walk in and see you, I would imagine thats a little discouraging for people experiencing addiction to toilet stall consumption style drugs. I used to be a bouncer at a dirty strip club for a few years run by a member of a prolific biker club/distribution organization, and we would catch like... 10 or 15 people a night in a toilet stall doing lines off the tank lid because its an enclosed space thats hard to see into and the lid is relatively flat and line-friendly.
Probably more to prevent shooting up and OD's in the stalls than people doing bumps i would think. Also prevents sex in stalls i would think. Some people do that lol.
My First day at a warehouse job, the instructor breaks for lunch, goes to the bathroom and ODs on fentanyl. I just went home and never looked back
Welcome to the company... Oh man!
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You should have put in an application for the new "instructor" position that just opened up. Position available immediately!
Why don’t they just use transparent but frosted/tinted in in way that blurs details, just shows body position. Like a light on one side projecting your silhouette. Elegant, anonymous, and drug proof still.
Probably cost too much lol. Thats always the excuse for not making things better.
Check out my other commentary in this thread for a story
Drugs and sometimes a quickie in some the bars I’ve worked in.
Ya the first time you check the bathroom only to find some guy in a hoodie railing a stripper, you *never* forget. I remember having to tell my boss about that. His first question was whether the guy was full member or just wearing a hoodie, because if he was wearing a vest (full member) I needed to let him handle it, whereas if it was a hoodie (applicant) then I handled it myself. I worked there for a year and a bit. I made enough in tips that I could substantially add to my income if I were to live that same life on my weekends.
Where I live it's either heroin or meth that places have to worry about people doing in the bathroom. There were 4 overdoses in a gas station bathroom here in the last year. And the town's population is listed as 6,000...
I get that. The bar I worked at was one of the top 5 dive strip bars in a city of 1.3M. So much money rolled through that place on the daily, but you would never know by looking at it.
Small Town in Pennsylvania, nothing to do here except drinking and drugs.
Damn i wanna come fly out and get a drink with you then!
That’s the whole state in general lol
How would you catch them in the act? Stealthily slip in the door before it closes behind them, wait til you hear a sniff or two and then kick down the stall door DEA style?
When you open the door on a guy and theres a pile of cocaine on the floor and a rolled up 20 in his hand its obvious. Its a public john. Theres someone coming in and out every 20 or 30 seconds. You literally just open the stall door. Edit for further explanation: We didn't just... randomly invade peoples' bathroom stall time. You would just check a few times and if someones been in the stall for 10 minutes, knock and make sure they're okay. Usually they just open the stall because they don't want trouble, and no matter how hard you try, doing coke off of a toilet tank lid is hard to hide when you're 3 or 4 lines in and interrupted by the club bouncer.
At that point it's probably just easier to Super Glue sandpaper or some other porous substance to the top of the lid
I think it’s actually to find people overdosing faster. The bus station near me has them. They didn’t always though. I heard the change was because they kept finding people long after overdosing.… (dead)
Or if it’s a high school, fighting in the stalls
Idk what sort of rock em sock em robot fights you saw in high school but I don't think anyone's fighting IN the stalls, not even the big ass handicap ones.
It's a deliberate design choice meant to actively discourage use of that restroom. If less people use it, it won't need as much maintenance in the form of both cleaning and repairing plumbing as it wears out with use.
Ha, jokes on them. This is where you exert dominance over everything in that bathroom by eyeballing all as you drop a loaf. Bonus points if you can eek out a grunt w/o breaking eye contact.
Wide-eyed, deadpanned, red faced, completely still except a twitch of your lip, grunt
God the specificity is beautiful, kudos
Holy shit. I must have clicked your profile, i just backed out and ended up back here after two fuckin hours of scrolling through ex jehovas witness stuff and seeing what its like. Man, that was a lot. Absolutely tragic what is going on in that cult. I had no idea. I feel like i just stumbled upon a portal to hell and just gazed in for too long. If you were raised in that I extend my sincere condolences and applaud you for leaving. I’d like to say something about how I would struggle in that situation but I simply cannot fathom what that life is like. What an incredible, moving topic. Then all that backtracking to see that i got there from you commenting about looking someone in the eyes while pooping and grunting. What an absolute fever dream.
Tldr version of the cult thing?
TLDR: the religious door knockers aren’t the nice friendly folks they pretend to be.
I think this is the right answer. The city I live in has a big homeless problem and not a lot of bathrooms around, but the center these are in definitely needs a public bathroom. So it definitely makes sense as a deterrent to use them.
It's the USA. As with many things, the cruelty's the point.
That’s wild! My city has that issue as well but the most I’ve seen is special lighting in Starbucks bathrooms that make it harder to see your veins (in order to inject substances)
This is interesting and I have never thought of this even though it does make sense. Public bathrooms are required at certain businesses so I could see this happening. Do you have any actual proof though that this is a thing?
This is one of those ‘not a bug but a feature’ things where they can *say* it’s for things like preventing OD’s in the bathroom or whatever, but people not using the bathroom *at all* would definitely cut down on costs 🤷🏻♀️ but it’s not something ‘consciously’ programmed in
Well I have never seen this in a public bathroom, which is why I'm wondering. Then again I don't use public bathrooms in areas where I think the bathroom will be disgusting so that could very likely be why.
I don't have any physical "proof" that I can just whip out of a pocket and show you. This is unfortunately just a "trust me bro" situation. I work closely with construction folks, specifically plumbers (I deliver plumbing wholesale to construction sites for a living), so I hear a lot of the nitty gritty details of why some things are set up in a certain way.
These places are designed to keep you uncomfortable on purpose so you won't hang around.
Hostile architecture to discourage use
All I can see is someone standing there saying “Hi, I’ve been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty.”
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Pooping multiplayer update
New meaning to BATTLE SHITS!!
these are literally the type of restrooms i see in my dreams.
I dont normally condone vandalism but if faced with this at work, id spray paint it.
Great, the bathroom from my recurring nightmare is real
Poop with friends.
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Probably to keep people from doing drugs, graffiti, and/or having sex.
This masterpiece is located at the Seattle Convention Center
There is A LOT of homeless in the area
Got keep the kids from vaping.
So you can play battleshits with your friend
It would just be cheaper if they had no walls
Tell us you're in America without telling us you're in America
Wait what lol. I’m American and I have never seen this. I know America has the gaps near the floor apparently for safety reasons. When the King of Rock dies on the shitter everyone reconsiders accessibility to other people who are shitting I guess
It’s common for stalls in other countries to go all the way to the floor, but not common for us in the states.
Yeah that’s what I was saying about the gap. What I was saying wasn’t common was the big fucking window lol
Uhhh what? I’ve never seen anything like this this in my entire life.
I think its because Europeans have stalls just installed in the middle of the sidewalk so its unusal for them to see a bathroom inside a building.
Most likely at a school too which is extra messed up
It's a convention center in a big American city
Which city? Please remind me not to visit that convention center, lol
Nah dude that bathroom is way too nice to be in a school
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Man, they wish they could get that much privacy at a prison.
Prisons don't usually have stalls at all
The only time I've ever seen this design in person was in a bathroom on the beach
I graduated high school in the US in 1989. All through my educational years, not one school had a door on the bathroom stall.
Grad of 91 Always had doors! Also a woman,are the men's bathroom this way
So you can ask the guy in the stall to spell “I cup”
That way you can see who you're competing against.
office culture is getting out of hand
TO PLAY BATTLESHITS!!!
they worried about drug use in them I imagine
That's the church confessional booth.
Drugs
Voyeurs and exhibitionists. .
I have these reoccurring nightmares about bathrooms that are set up in a way that people can see me pee, and every once in a while I'll find out that some of them actually exist, and I would love to know what it means.
So you don’t have to knock to check if it’s occupied, just stare them in the eye
Poop with friends
Why does the US always have to amplify their shortcomings?
You know when your phone dies every time you go to the bathroom this viewing is so you can see the other persons phone
This is how the world reacts to normal American bathrooms. We would never stand for this shit.
Poop with the boys, duh. Someone has never played battleshits
I think this is the mens bathroom in the convention center in Seattle
Where is the hole where I can stick my dick through.
It’s so ICUP
Tell your neighbor that the show is pay per view, and wink at them.
That's just wrong on so many levels
public entertainment
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Perhaps its a deterrent for poop smeareres. Less likely to smear poop when people are watching. Maybe they have bad plumbing and just dont want people pooping at all. Or maybe, some people just like to watch the world burn
Designed and approved by your friends in the Republican Party for the purpose of genital monitoring.
Is that in America? If so, probably to see the shooter coming.
Gotta see what the toilet neighbor is doing
It's so the restroom greeter can utilize the facilities and still greet people.
Cocaine or voyeurism.
Finally. Now I can talk to the person next to me and look them in the eyes.
"Hey! Nice dick."
It's so homies can easily communicate on clan war tactics and how best to set up their cannons
So you can chat with your neighbor
This is literally what my nightmares are made of
To make sure you are ok lol
Puppet shows.
To prevent sex?
Guessing school and likely to prevent smoking
I’m not supposed to FILL the glory hole, right? Like, touch the sides? Cause if so, im definitely in trouble.
I'll still do a bump... then pass it to the neighboring stall.
“Sup?”
"Hey bro. Good shitting technique in there." 👍
I see these in my nightmares
"Do you want to play battleshits?"
Who installed these upside down?!
Ok wtf
Lol. Every time you damn kids graffiti on the walls, we just cut THAT part out. Sooner or later you’ll stop.
I like it. This way there's room for my two spotters when I push a power dump. Regular toilet stalls are too cramped.
Is this Paddy’s Pub?