California passes law allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes

Re:California passes law allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes by kylehotchkiss on Thursday October 17, 2024 @02:50PM (#41872599)

What about the people who live nearby and maybe don't want to smell a cafe's worth of weed smoke? Apartment dwellers are already captive enough with smoking neighbors.

> California notably banned smoking in bars and restaurants nearly 30 years ago, the first US state to do so.

USA has become much better with Californias lead to ban smoking in restaurants, disappointing backtrack.

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Re:California passes law allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes by mburns on Thursday October 17, 2024 @04:15PM (#41873307)

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Re:California passes law allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes by UncleEntity on Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:02PM (#41873757)

The last time I was in a bar in California (which, admittedly, was quite a while ago) they didn't even enforce the no smoking law because a police officer had to see you actually taking a puff or some such nonsense. Sitting at a bar with a lit cigarette in the ashtray in front of you wasn't enough probable cause apparently. Maybe things have changed in the last 20 years, dunno?

Plus, you have always been allowed to smoke in tobacco shops, modulo some restrictions, which is directly relevant to TFA.

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Re:California passes law allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes by hightrix on Thursday October 17, 2024 @06:11PM (#41874324)

While enforcement may not have changed, attitudes have. If someone lit a cigarette in a bar today, they would be immediately thrown out. If not by the staff, by the patrons.

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Re:California passes law allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes by shadowmanifold on Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:20PM (#41873924)

Absurd comment. No one is going into a hash bar basically to not smoke weed.

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Re:California passes law allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes by saulpw on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:20PM (#41875531)

Employees have to work there.

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Re:California passes law allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes by squidgedcricket on Thursday October 17, 2024 @11:45PM (#41876168)

No, they don't.

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Re:California passes law allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes by dehugger on Saturday October 19, 2024 @01:29AM (#41885837)

I have yet to meet an employee of a weed shop that wasn't an absurdly enthusiastic stoner. I don't think they mind.

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Re:California passes law allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes by nihhhh on Friday October 18, 2024 @12:11AM (#41876273)

NIMBY!

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