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23/11/2025

🇵🇹 Portugal & Cannabis: What’s Actually Legal in 2025? 🇵🇹

Portugal is often praised for its progressive drug policy—but when it comes to cannabis, the rules are stricter than many people think. Here’s what you need to know:

• Personal possession of small amounts (up to 25g flower or 5g hash) is decriminalised, not legal. It’s treated as an administrative issue, not a crime.
 • Public consumption is banned, and fines or other penalties can apply. Private adult use is generally tolerated.
 • Home growing is illegal—even one plant can lead to criminal charges. Licensed cultivation exists only for medical or industrial use.
 • Selling or distributing cannabis is a serious criminal offense, with penalties that can reach up to 12 years in prison.
 • If caught with personal-use amounts, you’re sent to a Dissuasion Commission, where a legal expert, psychologist, and social worker assess your situation and may recommend counseling, treatment, or minor fines.
 • Medical cannabis is legal since 2018, available by prescription for specific conditions when other treatments haven’t worked.
 • Cannabis Social Clubs aren’t legal in Portugal, despite the model being common just next door in Spain.

👉 Bottom line: Portugal approaches personal use as a health matter, but recreational legalisation, home growing, and retail sales remain fully illegal.

22/11/2025

🇳🇱Amsterdam Light Festival🇳🇱

The Amsterdam Light Festival kicks off in a few days, turning the canals into a massive open-air gallery with 20 light installations from artists around the world.

This year’s theme, “Legacy,” hits different — it’s all about what we carry, what we leave behind, and the stories that light the way forward.
 From November 27, 2025 to January 18, 2026, you can cruise the canals, walk the 7km route, or tap into the festival app and explore at your own pace — all under the kind of lights you don’t forget.

If you’ve ever spent time here — drifting from coffeeshop to coffeeshop, stepping into that warm haze, smelling the familiar scent floating through the air — you know how the city wraps around you. Those late nights with friends, loved ones, walking the canals, laughing, vibing, finding your regular spot and getting high. 
There’s a nostalgia in the air this time of year — the lights, the chill, the smell, the memories.

Amsterdam just stays with you, there’s nowhere else like it in the world!🔥💨

Tag a friend you’ve been to Dam with.🍃

21/11/2025

Quiet grind, loud results.😎💨

20/11/2025

🌿Decoding Cannabis Laws in Spain🇪🇸

Spain operates in a unique legal grey area. It’s mostly legal in private, but illegal in public. Confused? See below:

* Personal Use: The consumption of cannabis in private is generally decriminalised.

* Public Use: Consuming cannabis or possessing it in public spaces is illegal and can result in fines (€601 to €30,000).

* Growing: Growing for personal use in private is permitted, provided plants are not publicly visible. There is no official legal limit of “2 plants per person” nationally; the quantity must be clearly for personal consumption and not distribution. The “2 plants” figure is a common guideline/rule of thumb, but not a legal limit.

* Sale and Distribution: The sale and distribution of cannabis for profit are illegal and considered a criminal offense.

* Personal Amount: While it’s a “grey area,” possession of up to 100 grams in private is often considered a “reasonable” amount for personal use and not trafficking. This figure is derived from court jurisprudence, not specific law.

* Cannabis Social Clubs: These are private, non-profit associations where members can collectively cultivate and consume cannabis in a closed environment, operating in a legal grey area to avoid the legal definition of “sale”.

In summary: private is fine, public is a fine. Respect local laws while exploring Spain, it’s an amazing country to visit and relax with your favourite pastime.💨🇪🇸

18/11/2025

Curiosity isn’t just a mindset — it’s a biological power move.
 Affective neuroscience shows that when you get curious, our brain’s dopamine system lights up. That’s the same reward-and-motivation circuit that helps us feel energised and engaged.

And here’s the twist: this dopamine shift actually turns down amygdala activity. Less fear, less guarding, more exploring. 
Curiosity literally changes the way our brain interprets uncertainty — not as danger, but as opportunity.

That’s why learning feels good. That’s why exploration feels natural. 
Fear freezes. Curiosity moves. The difference isn’t courage — it’s perspective.

16/11/2025

5 Places on Earth Where Time Feels Different ⏳🌍

Some corners of our planet have a way of messing with our sense of time — bending it, stretching it, or flipping it upside down. From strange gravitational quirks to extreme sunlight cycles, these spots make you question what “time” even means.

🇮🇳 Magnetic Hill, India and 🇺🇸 The Oregon Vortex play tricks on your eyes, making cars seem to roll uphill and gravity feel… optional.

🧊 Antarctica pushes the limits of technology and human perception. With brutal cold affecting equipment and months of nonstop daylight or darkness, time stops feeling like a steady rhythm and more like a shifting illusion.

🌌 Near the poles, entire seasons can pass without a sunrise or sunset, stretching your inner clock in ways most people never experience. And according to relativity, areas with stronger gravitational anomalies may even experience tiny, measurable differences in the flow of time itself.

These places remind us that time isn’t always as fixed or familiar as we think.

Maybe our experience of it is far more fluid than we ever imagined.

15/11/2025

🌿Can an ancient spice support modern brain health?

Emerging research suggests saffron may offer cognitive benefits for people with Alzheimer’s — and in several small clinical studies, its effects were comparable to standard medications like donepezil.

What makes saffron so interesting to researchers?
✨ Helping reduce oxidative stress
✨ Supporting healthy neurotransmitter activity
✨ Showing protective effects against amyloid plaque buildup in experimental models.

While the evidence is still early and saffron isn’t a replacement for medical treatment, these findings highlight the fascinating ways nutrition and brain health are connected.

Sometimes, nature gives us more than flavor — it gives us possibilities.

14/11/2025

🇳🇱Cannabis in the Netherlands🌿

* Cannabis is still technically illegal, but small-scale possession and sale are tolerated under the Dutch policy of gedogen (official toleration).
* Adults can possess up to 5 grams for personal use without prosecution.
* Home growing up to 5 plants is technically illegal but often overlooked if clearly non-commercial.
* Coffeeshops may sell small amounts under strict local rules — no minors, no alcohol, and no advertising.
* Since April 2025, ten Dutch municipalities are part of the new regulated cannabis supply pilot, where coffeeshops must buy from licensed growers.
* Public smoking is tolerated in some areas but banned in others (for example, parts of central Amsterdam).
* Import, export, and unlicensed sales remain fully illegal.

A uniquely Dutch balance between control, tolerance, and experimentation — gedogen in action 🍊🇳🇱

13/11/2025

“...the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means ‘technically illegal but officially tolerated.’

This idea perfectly sums up how cannabis has been treated in Amsterdam for decades — not quite legal, but widely accepted.

Back in the day, coffeeshops had to be clever to stay one step ahead of the law. At the original , they came up with a creative warning system known as the Orange Raid Alarm.

Whenever police were spotted entering the shop, the bartender upstairs would drop an orange down a pipe to the basement — a silent signal to hide any evidence before the officers made it down.

A piece of Amsterdam coffeeshop history 💨🍊

11/11/2025

🧠 When cannabis + to***co team up, your brain’s chemistry shifts.

🔬 McGill University study found: • Mixing both boosts FAAH, an enzyme that breaks down anandamide — your brain’s “bliss molecule.” • Less anandamide = less calm and more stress. • PET scans showed higher FAAH activity in brain areas tied to emotion and reward. • This combo disrupts the endocannabinoid system, which helps regulate mood, pleasure, and stress. • Linked to higher anxiety, greater stress, and stronger cravings.

🌿 Why cannabis alone is different: • Doesn’t significantly raise FAAH levels. • Helps maintain endocannabinoid balance when used moderately. • Associated with lower stress reactivity and better emotional regulation.

🧩 The takeaway: Early research shows adding to***co may quietly rewire your brain’s reward and mood systems — cannabis alone has a better effect on the brain’s balance.

10/11/2025

The last real snowfall in the Netherlands was back in February 2021 — Storm Darcy, right in the middle of lockdown. ❄️

The city slowed down, the canals froze, and Amsterdam turned into a snow globe.

If you’ve ever been here when it’s snowing, you know that magic — wrapped up warm, coffeeshops glowing through the mist, smoke drifting into the cold night, hot chocolate in hand, nowhere to rush. ☕💨

That kind of peace hits different. Here’s to those hazy, cozy winter days finding their way back again. 🌨️❤️

09/11/2025

♻️✨ In Thailand, sustainability meets spirituality in the most breathtaking way!

Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew — or the “Temple of a Million Bottles” — in Sisaket Province was built using more than 1.5 million recycled beer bottles, mostly Heineken and Chang. Every wall, mosaic, and decoration shines with glass, turning what could’ve been waste into a masterpiece of faith and eco-creativity.

A true reminder that green design can be both sacred and stunning. 🌿🙏

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