Also, drug laws are saner than in then US (apart from cannabis legalisation) and nobody is out to get you for minor amounts of any drug. Even getting caught selling drugs will get you locked up guaranteed, if you don't pair that with criminal conspiracy.

However, buying or selling weapons is no joke here.

It's pretty similar over the border in Switzerland too, with the exception of looser gun control laws.

You can buy an amount of weed here (for personal) use that would absolutely get you convicted with "intent to supply" in the UK.

My weed smoking friends were worried they wouldn't be able to pick up when they came to visit. It was not a problem.