N. Texas cafe will sell cannabis drinks and snacks

A North Texas cannabis company will soon debut its first cafe, with hemp-infused drinks and snacks. 

The AmeriCanna Café is a subsidiary of the publicly-traded Dallas-based North American Cannabis Holdings, Inc (USMJ). It's expected to open in Frisco by the end of the year, CEO Steven Rash said. 

"We want it to be like Starbucks of cannabis," he said. 

The drinks and snacks don't contain marijuana — the popular breed of cannabis consumed for its intoxicating THC. That's illegal in Texas. Instead they use hemp, the legal and less edgy cannabis plant. But that could change someday, said Rash, 67. 

Twenty-three states already sport legal medical marijuana, and Ohio is set to vote in November on whether or not to become the sixth state (plus Washington, D.C.) with legal recreational weed.

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