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UK: 'Cannabis centre' opens up in resort

Helen Clarke

The Gazette, Blackpool

Tuesday 02 Apr 2002

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THE first-ever cannabis cafe is set to open in Blackpool next month -
but there will only be herbal highs on offer rather than the real thing.

Bosses at newly-opened Weed City are planning to run a cafe in the back
of their shop on Central Drive which is for over 18s only.

But they say before their critics cause a storm, there will be strictly
no smoking of the illegal drug or they would risk being shut down.

James Jones, spokesman for Weed City, said: "The cafe will open sometime
this month and will sell cannabis-related foods or hemp foods - chew
bars made from cannabis seeds.

"There won't be any smoking of it. We will be selling herbal smokes, but
we won't allow cannabis on the premises. It's illegal and we would be
shut down.

"It will just be a meeting place for like-minded people to talk about
the current state of affairs and chill out basically."

The cafe won't be preparing food on the site, but will bring in ready
prepared foods to sell, including hemp sandwiches made with hemp bread.

In what cannabis campaigners would call a strange twist in the law, it
is perfectly legal to use cannabis or "hemp" products. It is only the
narcotic which can be made from part of the plant which is illegal.

Owned by Alan Lee, Weed City is the first dedicated shop of this nature
in the resort - a "head shop" so-called because it provides everything a
cannabis smoker needs.

It sells bongs - a type of smoking pipe, cannabis seeds, cigarette
papers (skins), pipes and herbal highs, which are all completely above
the law to sell.

But if a customer told staff they were going to use the skins or bongs
for smoking cannabis or "pot" or "marijuana" as it is sometimes known,
they would have to ask them to leave, and refuse their trade.

This is "hypocrisy", says Mr Jones.


 

 

 

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