As Canada Moves to Legalize Marijuana, Shop Owners Ask: Why Wait?
The Cannabis Culture Lounge has everything a pothead might need to feel right at home: $3 marijuana buds, bongs for rent, bags of Skittles and Doritos for sale, and black leather couches where customers can recline in zoned-out contemplation in a pungent haze. Never mind that it is all technically prohibited by Canadian law.
Still, some enthusiasts have higher hopes for the business, which opened more than a decade ago as a kind of speakeasy for marijuana smoking — long tolerated by the city’s authorities. The lounge began selling marijuana after Justin Trudeau was elected prime minister in November.
“This is what recreational marijuana legalization in Canada looks like,” said Jodie Emery, an activist and the co-owner of the lounge and several medical marijuana dispensaries across Canada.
Mr. Trudeau has promised to make recreational marijuana legal in Canada as soon as...
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