We’re seeing the state take a similarly nonsensical position on the lounges now under consideration by the state Cannabis Regulatory Commission.
Again the sale of food is prohibited. Also banned are alcoholic beverages, even BYOB.
So basically the state wants you and your fellow potheads to sit and stare at each other as you get stoned.
That’s not much of a business model says Jennifer Cabrera, a lawyer with multi-state law firm Vicente Sederberg.
“You can’t buy a water there,” said Cabrera when I called her last week.”You can’t even buy a Snickers bar.”
The CRC can’t do anything about that ban, Cabrera said, because it is written into the legislation that legalized marijuana in 2021.
“I don’t know who was behind it,” she said. “My assumption is that someone in the hospitality industry thought it would be harmful to them.”