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First legal marijuana café opened in America | America 's first and only legal marijuana coffee shop has been opened in Portland, Oregon. 'Cannabis Café' which looks like any other coffee shop in America has a special
corner for marijuana. The customers do not have coffee pots in front of them,
but "vaporisers" with digital readouts indicating when the plant samples have
been heated to precisely 375F, at which point a thin mist rises from them into
large transparent plastic bags. The patrons "sip" on the bags using the kind of
valves that you might see on a diver's oxygen tank. But for how long will 'Cannabis
Café' survive in America is entirely up to the Obama Administration, which, for
the time being, has instructed its Attorney-General, Eric Holder, to leave the
policing of marijuana to individual states. "Prohibition didn't work the first
time around. It just created a culture of gangsters and murderers. And now it's
happening again. I say we take marijuana away from the Mexican mob," said Madeline
Martinez, 58, who runs the café. She added that she would like to see the state
of Oregon itself become the primary supplier. "They could grow it in state prisons.
The best growers are already in there," she said. For the time being, however,
visiting the Cannabis Café is not quite as easy as going to Starbucks. First,
one must be enrolled in Oregon 's Medical Marijuana Programme - available only
to residents of the state. Joining requires a 100-dollar fee and a doctor's certificate
confirming that one suffers from cancer, glaucoma, Aids, Alzheimer's, or any condition
that results in severe pain, appetite loss, spasms, seizures, or nausea. Only
after being issued with a patient ID card are one is allowed to join the Oregon
chapter of the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML),
which costs 240 dollars a year. |
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