World Famous Cannabis Cafe to reopen Friday in Portland

For years, the World Famous Cannabis Café in Portland offered medical marijuana patients the chance to socialize and smoke.

Starting Friday, anyone 21 and older can walk into the club and light up.

The hitch: You'll have to bring your own pot. Patrons, who will pay $10 to get in, can share but not sell cannabis at the café, said owner Madeline Martinez.

Call it BYOB or BYOD, said Martinez, a longtime political activist and fixture of Oregon's marijuana community. "Bring your own bud and bring your own dabs," she said.

Social clubs like the World Famous Cannabis Café are legal under Oregon's new marijuana law, said Anthony Johnson, chief petitioner of Measure 91. As long as they don't sell cannabis and the drug is consumed out of public view, lounges don't require any marijuana-related licensing from the state, he said.

The café first opened in 2009. A social club for...

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