Canada: Medicinal marijuana lounge opens in downtown Windsor

Windsor's first medical marijuana vaping lounge barely had time to open its doors and city officials are talking about finding ways to regulate this type of business.

Higher Limits is already buzzing with customers after opening about a week ago, according to co-owner Jon Liedtke, who says he offers a safe place for medicinal marijuana users to hang out while also eliminating some of the stigma attached to marijuana use.

"We want to bring cannabis out of the closet and put it in the forefront," Liedtke told CBC's Afternoon Drive on Monday. "Right in downtown Windsor is as much of the forefront as we think we can get."

Located at the corner of Ouellette and University avenues in the heart of the city's downtown, the lounge is able to open through a provincial business license.

The city doesn't have any bylaws regulating vaping lounges, but Coun. Rino Bortolin wants to change that.

"We need to deal with it from a licensing and regulation standpoint," he said. "If...

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