Boston will be like Amsterdam, but without the tall people

by philg

“With New Cannabis Cafes, You Can Smoke ‘Em Where You Bought ‘Em” (WBUR) describes our new regulations:

Sometime soon in Massachusetts, you’ll be able to walk into a cafe, ask for a marijuana product, and consume it right there without heading home first.

The state agency responsible for regulating legalized marijuana approved a policy on Monday that will allow for such establishments, so-called “cannabis cafes,” to open — where one can buy a cannabis product and then legally consume it on the premises, just like buying a drink at a bar.

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5 thoughts on “Boston will be like Amsterdam, but without the tall people”

  2. Calif* faces a funny problem with this new world: taking down all the no smoking signs that they put up during the war against nicotine.

  3. @lion You’ve got it wrong, California will have to update the signs to say no marijuana they already say “no smoking, no vaping”. The people against public smoking are PURITANS.

  4. @lion, @JW: can confirm. I visited the bay area in April and the people I talked to said that California would definitely be making sure that people knew that smoking weed in public spaces was just as socially unacceptable as smoking tobacco.

    They also said that it had taken California longer to pass a recreational cannabis law than Colorado, Washington and Oregon because pretty much anybody in California who wants to use cannabis can get a medical weed card, zero questions asked.

  5. Blog post idea for Philg. No idea what to make of this myself.

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