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UK: Dope Cafe Is Gone In A Puff Of Smoke
Daily Record, Glasgow
Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 THE owner of Scotland's first cannabis cafe has shut up shop because he couldn't cope with the demand for bacon rolls. Paul Stewart opened the Purple Haze Cafe, in Leith, Edinburgh, just a month ago. He said: 'I have co-owned a normal cafe for years but my wife ran it. I setup the cannabis cafe after we separated. 'I hadn't much hands-on experience of running a normal cafe and it is that side of things I've found stressful. 'I am a landscape gardener by trade making bacon rolls is not really my thing.' Stewart,37, says he will lose 25,000 UKP when he sells the lease on the cafe, which runs as a private members' cannabis cafe at night only. More than 100 people paid 5 UKP to join but only around 12 actually turned up each night. Although the drug has been downgraded from class B to class C, it is still illegal. Alistair Ramsay, director of Scotland Against Drugs, said: 'This demonstrates that anyone else who tries to flout the law will pay a pretty high cost.'
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