{"id":25757,"date":"2018-04-27T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2018\/04\/27\/california-could-see-cannabis-coffeeshops-on-the-beach\/"},"modified":"2018-04-28T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T20:42:29","slug":"california-could-see-cannabis-coffeeshops-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2018\/04\/27\/california-could-see-cannabis-coffeeshops-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"California Could See Cannabis Coffeeshops on the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>As with California adults who want to grow their own marijuana, the luck of Californians who want a convenient place to consume it varies from place to place.<\/p>\n<p>For adults in conservative jurisdictions who <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/marijuana-zoning-laws-dispensaries-schools\/\">live close to a school<\/a>, for example, the legal landscape will look a whole lot like prohibition from the vantage of their bedroom closet, blinds drawn, and smoke filtered through a tube of toilet paper with a napkin of fabric softener wrapped over one end. But the really lucky ones will hit the legalization jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/tag\/prop-64\/\">Prop. 64<\/a> generally restricts the smoking of cannabis to the home and away from schools and youth centers, it leaves open space for local governments, <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/how-local-control-is-creating-access-deserts-california\/\">if they so choose<\/a>, to license businesses for on-site consumption. This means that Amsterdam-style \u201ccoffeeshops\u201d are coming to California!<\/p>\n<p>They will only be permitted in cities that vote to allow them, and you can expect all kinds of regulations that will dictate air filtration, careful separation of the smoking room from areas visible (or smellable) by the public, and forbidding businesses with liquor licenses (e.g., bars) from selling pot too. But this is still a big deal \u2014 soon, some lucky Californians will have a choice of inviting their friends out to the hash bar instead of yet another night out <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/cannabis-can-help-fight-alcoholism\/\">drinking alcohol<\/a>. When the first coffeeshop\u00a0opens its doors on the California beach, it will finally feel like real legalization.<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrosenthal.com\/product-page\/new-rules-california-s-marijuana-law-explained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Rules: California\u2019s Marijuana Laws Explained<\/a>\u201d by Jeremy Daw. Daw is the\u00a0author of \u201cWeed the People: From Founding Fiber to Forbidden Fruit\u201d and the co-author of \u201cThe Newbies Guide to Cannabis and the Industry.\u201d His newest book, which features an introduction from best-selling author <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/author\/ed-rosenthal\/\">Ed Rosenthal<\/a>, is designed to provide a critical overview of the new cannabis laws in California. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/issue-29\/\">Issue 29<\/a>\u00a0of Cannabis Now.\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/print-digital-magazine\"><strong>LEARN MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TELL US,<\/strong> do you think smoking lounges are coming to California beaches?<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/cannabis-coffeeshops-california\/\">California Could See Cannabis Coffeeshops on the Beach<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\">Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/cannabis-coffeeshops-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">California Could See Cannabis Coffeeshops on the Beach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with California adults who want to grow their own marijuana, the luck of Californians who want a convenient place to consume it varies from place to place. For adults in conservative jurisdictions who live close to a school, for example, the legal landscape will look a whole lot like<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2018\/04\/27\/california-could-see-cannabis-coffeeshops-on-the-beach\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59,148,50,1724,99,85,3431,1636,2111,373],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25758,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25757\/revisions\/25758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}