San Diego is considering allowing cannabis businesses to open lounges where customers can smoke or eat the product. The city will take a look at what’s happening elsewhere, like in San Francisco, where such lounges are part of the cultural landscape.
Michael Leonor smokes marijuana in the smoking lounge at Barbary Coast Dispensary in San Francisco in a March 2018 photo.
Californians voted to legalize recreational marijuana in 2016, but smoking it in public is still forbidden. The industry and those who partake often say getting high is, among other things, a social affair and are clamoring for public establishments where people can safely smoke together. Many have thematic decor to distinguish themselves while also enticing customers with amenities such as coffee, sports on TV and specialty nights. They rent out bongs and other marijuana paraphernalia for use during visits.
The interior at the recently opened Moe Greens mimics an upscale Las Vegas casino of the 1950s and ’60s, with “Sputnik” light fixtures and green leather booths, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The owner of the Revive Wellness Center and Revive Salon & Spa told the Press-Enterprise he would move his business because he didn’t want to subject “clients and patients to that kind of indoor pollution.”In San Francisco, the lounges “must be directly exhausted to the outdoors by a filtration system that, at minimum, eliminates all odor and smoke,” according to the city’s operating standards.
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