Jail Time for Nicotine Pouches?! France Faces EU Criticism

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Just recently you could buy [music] snooze in France and from one day to another it's abolished and forbidden and uh you can even go to [music] jail if you carry and use this >> and quite heavy sentences too. You you can go to prison for several years from what I hear. One person that has spoken out quite vehemently [music] against this is Yuan Donielson who thinks this is a complete outrage. What is your take?

[00:00:22]I do agree with you one that it is crazy that we that we have to go to Stratburg in order to vote and to debate [music] once a month and uh then we cannot bring what we use on a daily basis. France is the only country so far and I hope it stops by that and [music] that we also can make them reasonable and and see what we can do to make them understand that this is not narcotics. So picking up on something you said, I think it's it's quite clear that snooze or nicotine pouches, it's not drugs, is it? Why is it become viewed as such in France?

[00:00:54]>> No, they decided when they [music] did the legislation to classify it as