California Considers Legalizing Food & Beverages At Cannabis Cafes
Haney’s bill would also allow cannabis cafes to host live performances and sell tickets
You order a sandwich, a coffee and a marijuana cigarette, then settle in for a musical performance. This could become the future under a bill aimed at changing the landscape of cannabis use in California.
The legislation put forward this month by Assemblyman Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) would legalize the sale of food and nonalcoholic beverages at cannabis retailers and lounges.
“It’s not unlike a neighborhood bar or cafe where people gather and get a lot of social value [out] of that,” Haney said. “We’re allowing in many places on-site consumption of cannabis, but they’re pretty sad places right now because you can’t eat or drink.”
Alcohol would not be allowed at the “cannabis cafes” under Assembly Bill 374, Haney noted.
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