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Nov 14, 2009 9:00 am US/Eastern
Nation's 1st Cannabis Cafe Opens In Portland
Cafe Rumpspankers First Of Its Kind Since President Obama Relaxed Laws Concerning Policy On Medicinal Uses Of Pot
PORTLAND, Ore. (CBS) ―
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Madeline Martinez, leader in Oregon's NORML chapter, demonstrates how to smoke marijuana using a vaporizer during the opening of the nation's first cannabis cafe. (Video still)
www.oregonlive.com
A coffee shop in Portland, Oregon is the nation's first marijuana cafe where certified medical cannabis users can come to get the drug and smoke it, as long as they stick to state law and smoke out of public view.
Cafe Rumpspankers, which will soon carry the name Cannabis Cafe, is testing a new relaxed policy by President Barack Obama regarding medical marijuana users. The policy, handed down by the administration in October, restricts federal attorneys from prosecuting patients who use the drug for medical reasons and dispensaries in states that have legalized them.
Other states, such as California and Colorado, have legalized medicinal marijuana, but their laws only allow for dispensaries.
The
Oregon chapter of NORML (National Organization for the Repeal of Marijuana Laws) participates in managing the cafe.
The only people permitted in the Cannabis Cafe are those licensed to smoke who also hold membership in the lobbying group, reports Anne Saker of OregonLive.com. According to Saker's report, visitors to the establishment will be charged $5 a day, and can bring their own pot or smoke donated marijuana. Oregon law says medical marijuana may not be sold.
Read more of
Saker's report on the launch of the Cannabis Cafe.
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