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UK: Purple Haze Cafe -- BYOC, as in cannabis
UPI Wire Washington Times Online
Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 LEITH, Scotland, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Scotland's first cannabis cafe will open in Edinburgh this week after pot is downgraded Thursday to class C status, the Scotsman reported. The Scottish Cannabis Coffee Shop Movement said people will be allowed to use the drug in the Purple Haze cafe in Leith, when it is reclassified throughout the United Kingdom. However, the newspaper said Scottish bobbies have a different idea. Despite the relaxed law in other spots around the U.K., local police warned Wednesday anyone possessing cannabis could still face prosecution and the cafe shut down. A spokesman for Lothian and Borders police departments confirmed all offenders would be arrested. "The possession and supply of cannabis is illegal," said the spokesman. "It is also illegal for the occupier or any person concerned in the management of the premises to knowingly allow any person to smoke or supply cannabis." The new law puts pot on par with other anti-depressants, but gives police leeway to decide its proper usage.
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