Cannabis smoking places are all the rage in those places where they’re allowed. Ontario is one of those places as is Illinois, California, Nevada and apparently Alaska. The most ubiquitous seems to be the lounge but I’m not sure that with a little bigger thinking we might come up with something even more fun.
Marijuana Business magazine says “legal cannabis consumption spaces…remain relatively rare” in Canada.
From a website called COVA, “Lawmakers in Ontario were accepting comments for legislation that would permit social use within the province. Talks have recently been renewed about legalizing indoor cannabis consumption lounges, as some outdoor lounges are already open in Ontario.”
Bloomberg News reports, “A handful of legal cannabis consumption lounges are beginning to pop up in Ontario.” Their description is illuminating: “Laura Bradley, who opened The Bend Café and Lounge next to her cannabis store in Grand Bend, Ont., said in an interview that she wanted to provide her customers and the local community with an area that would allow cannabis to be consumed safely and alongside staff who are experienced and can help explain the products.”
The photo of the lounge shows a row of three overly long picnic tables with needed supplies on top. The setting is an outdoor courtyard with high walls designed from wooden pallets artfully combined and overhead lighting on colorful strings. A few plants, tables and other seating arrangements are slung around. It is open to the air and the floor is pea gravel and slab stones.
It reminds me of the outdoor space we use in the summertime at the Legends Southside Bar and Grill, except it looks to be completely enclosed, which tells me, it’s OK if drivers can see people drinking, but watching people smoking marijuana is verboten.
Bloomberg News reports, “For Richard Browne, adding some picnic tables in an empty lot right next to his Alchemy Canna Col store in northern Toronto is part of a move to stand out from other competing pot shops and give customers an opportunity to “take a load off”.
When I think of cannabis consumption space, I think of the outdoors. My old resort on St. Thomas would have made a great cannabis consumption space. Maybe it still will. Cannabis is legal on St. Thomas, but they’re still waiting for enabling legislation, five years and counting.
It was perfect because first of all it was a resort. We have guards at the front gate, though it was open from the beach side. So you couldn’t drive in but you could walk in, or creep in at night. And it happened. More than I’d like to know since my condo was the first one up from the beach. But I was safe because I was on the top floor. Mine was F-6 which is featured on the following website.
Pt. Pleasant Resort was created as the vision of one man and it was an environmental vision. It was a green resort long before such things became popular, if not necessary. The first units were right out of Playboy magazine, a kind of 50s playpen of wood and windows, with sliding doors, moonlit patios and a discreet bar in the far corner of the great room.
Built on a rocky hillside overlooking Water Bay the 16-acre property was catacombed with hard dirt hiking trails made level with those local stones of beige and brown. Here and there a swimming pool would appear. We had three or four of them. In a few places large stone walled patios were created to take advantage of the glorious view.
Some time after Hurricane Marilyn ripped the roofs off our bayside units and brought us to our knees again, the British royal yacht anchored off Water Point. The view was so enticing, the royals stayed almost a week. One morning when I stepped out for my morning stretch I noticed they were gone.
Trippy place.
Like I said a great place for a cannabis consumption space. That’s the big thing I’m thinking about when I come to think of cannabis consumption spaces. Give me a resort to open my mind to, not a picnic table in a vacant lot.
Behind the Green Door I’ve compiled a list of cannabis consumption lounges with a brief description of how they work and what they offer.
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