I live in a country where those are TECHNICALLY legal, but they are all discouraged.
You can buy weed, but only at so-called coffeeshops, which are often shady looking places with a security guard asking for ID. In some areas, the local authorities have made them members-only clubs because of drug tourism, so you need to sign up for them first. And of course, while you can buy it if you really want to, you can't legally grow it. Although there's trials for growing them legally at the moment, because all the growing was done by crime networks in dodgy and unsafe circumstances (think power theft, fire risk, etc).
Tobacco is legal, but over the years they have added more and more measures to discourage them; in rough chronological order, they banned advertising, they added bold text warning people of the security risks, then graphic images of cancers and damaged lungs. Over time they bumped up the extra taxes so that a pack of cigarettes is now over €10. They banned custom packaging, so everything now looks bland. And last year they forbade the products being on display, so they have to be behind a door or in a drawer now. This led to more 'illegal' tobacco imports from abroad.
Prostitution is technically legal, but local counties have clamped down on the locations where it can be practiced, trying to turn the red light districts into gentrified fashion stores. And last year, prostitution was banned entirely as part of corona measures. I mean it's sorta back now, but the amount of from-home and illegal brothels has exploded since then - with human trafficking and slavery to go with it, because there is not enough oversight anymore.
You can buy weed, but only at so-called coffeeshops, which are often shady looking places with a security guard asking for ID. In some areas, the local authorities have made them members-only clubs because of drug tourism, so you need to sign up for them first. And of course, while you can buy it if you really want to, you can't legally grow it. Although there's trials for growing them legally at the moment, because all the growing was done by crime networks in dodgy and unsafe circumstances (think power theft, fire risk, etc).
Tobacco is legal, but over the years they have added more and more measures to discourage them; in rough chronological order, they banned advertising, they added bold text warning people of the security risks, then graphic images of cancers and damaged lungs. Over time they bumped up the extra taxes so that a pack of cigarettes is now over €10. They banned custom packaging, so everything now looks bland. And last year they forbade the products being on display, so they have to be behind a door or in a drawer now. This led to more 'illegal' tobacco imports from abroad.
Prostitution is technically legal, but local counties have clamped down on the locations where it can be practiced, trying to turn the red light districts into gentrified fashion stores. And last year, prostitution was banned entirely as part of corona measures. I mean it's sorta back now, but the amount of from-home and illegal brothels has exploded since then - with human trafficking and slavery to go with it, because there is not enough oversight anymore.