Next up: the Netherlands, nine in ten teenagers cycling home at night with no lights and no care in the world.
Yeah well tbf the age is 18 in france. Just come across the switzerland the age is 16 there.
Did it change? I think it was 14 or 15 when I was that age.
Some retailers where I live in Normandy just sell to whoever, no questions asked. Bars serve too.
It isn’t a little sip of wine either. The shop across the street from a middle school sells kids vodka at lunch time and these kids get shitfaced. Same for cigarettes at the tobacco shops.
I get what some people are saying, that it is a right of passage and stuff, and that the drinking culture is different here, but these kids are binge-drinking at lunch. We also have loads of CBD shops now that sell pre-rolls. They won’t get stoned, but it isn’t healthy.
I suspect that it is closer to 99% of shops doing this in larger areas.
I did ask a shop owner about this. He will ask for ID, his wife too, but he can’t get his employees to always do it. The main factor for him is that if they refuse they might steal it.
Anyway, as a Canadian who has lived here for 20 years, I am still shocked whenever I see this especially when I get carded in Canada when I buy alcohol (not because I look young, it is just store policy where I come from).
I haven’t been to France that much but I believe a serious part of all french people consider drinking wine so much part of ‘good culture’ they really don’t think you should limit underage drinking entirely. More like, you’re 15 so you can only have one glass. But that might be based on a stereotype so please respond if you disagree this is a thing.
