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UK: Police present as cannabis cafe opens
Lancashire Evening Telegraph
Saturday 03 Aug 2002 EAST Lancashire's first cannabis cafe opened for business last night. Police attended the Real Jerk cafe in Bolton Road, Ewood, after owner David Wilson opened at about 4pm. Mr Wilson allowed customers to bring along the drug and smoke it. Officers paid two visits to warn the pro-cannabis campaigner that they would be monitoring his actions. Mr Wilson, 37, said: "I'm here to cook West Indian food. "I'll try this out and if the people of East Lancashire think it is okay I'll carry on, but if people don't support me I'll stop. "I have had no problems - it has been a good night. A lot of people have come down to show support. "The police came down before I opened to warn me to close and that they didn't like what I was doing. There has been no intimidation." Mr Wilson said he closed the cafe three hours early at midnight because he wanted to stop young people coming from nightclubs and causing trouble because "that's not what this is about".
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