Downtown Haverhill Is Poised To Open One Of MA’s First Legal Cannabis Consumption Lounges
The state took its time allowing consumption lounges
Downtown Haverhill is home to an eclectic mix of places to spend a night out, from the Korean restaurant Damgueda, to Vault 77 Lounge, to The Tap Brewing Company. Now, it’s poised to become home to one of the state’s first cannabis consumption lounges, allowing people to legally consume cannabis outside of private homes in Massachusetts for the very first time.
Cannabis cafés have popped up across the United States in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, and other states over the past several years. These cafés allow patrons to not only purchase marijuana products, but also consume them on the premises, the way people might buy a cocktail at a bar. But even after a 2016 ballot measure legalized recreational marijuana in Massachusetts and dispensaries became commonplace, the state took its time allowing consumption lounges.
“When voters approved this, it was approved that cannabis lounges would eventually be in the future of the cannabis industry here in Massachusetts,” says Caroline Pineau, CEO and owner of Stem, which became Haverhill’s first cannabis dispensary when it opened in 2020. “That has not yet come to fruition until now.”
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