"There are vegan nachos and upscale corn dogs; French fries and Angus burgers; and crispy brussels sprouts as well as baby kale and garden salads for those with more virtuous palates when they’re high.... The restaurant, which opened on Oct. 1 and has been packed every day since, is part of West Hollywood’s effort to make the city a kind of cannabis destination within Los Angeles County.... Lush potted plants and slowly rotating fans hang from the ceiling... There are juices with ginger and turmeric; no alcohol is allowed. A hip wait staff takes food orders, while roving 'flower hosts' — a sort of weed sommelier — hand out thick tomes with lists of cannabis options. ('How do you want to medicate?' one asked, cheerfully.) On the weed menu are vape pens with 'cold pressed cannabis oil' ($60), loose marijuana ('sold by the eighth ounce'), crystal-clear gravity bongs for rent, and pre-rolled joints including the options Kushberry Cheesecake ($20, 'invigorating, active') and Kosher Dog ($27, 'soothing, mood booster'), which came rolled up with a tiny spiral noodle as the filter. Heady smoke fills the air in spite of the well-publicized, state-of-the-art ventilation system."
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"Pairs Well With Weed/The first marijuana restaurant in West Hollywood, Calif. is a branding exercise. What does it mean for the industry?" (NYT).
Lots of verbiage, but there are also photographs at the link, and the place does not look at all elegant or sophisticated. The people look... well, let me quote a commenter over there:
I am staring in disbelief at these images of glazed-eyed, let's get stoned, I-want-my-organic-greens self-indulgence; and contemplating their apparent self-satisfaction that this is good for society, and most of all, for children watching what the grown-ups do... I weep for the children, starting with the ones I saw, decades ago when I was a young parent, left on their own on the village green, with money in their pockets and air kisses from their stoned parents off to the next Ashram fun for the weekend. These (perfectly pleasant and friendly) parents would chide me for my old-fashioned ways; But today, my children are alive, and sadly, a number of theirs are not.
PS: I am a lifelong progressive Democrat.
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PS: I am a lifelong progressive Democrat.
The stupid runs strong in this one.
"Lifelong"? What is it with these people who self-identify with a political party literally from birth? As if the innocence of childhood is something to be retroactively ashamed of.
Do they have a black light and a Ghost Ship poster?
any cheetos ofr funyuns?
Being a “lifelong progressive Democrat” means being surprised by reality even into your dotage - If you ever notice it.
"PS: I am a lifelong progressive Democrat."
Let me show you my NAACP membership card.
No shaming of drug culture allowed - unless you're a lifelong progressive.
PS: I am a lifelong progressive Democrat.
Not yet, you aren't.
When I look at the photo in the article my mind's eye shows me a bunch of 10 year-olds playing "restaurant." And I am reminded of being fifteen, with my buddies after we illegally scored some beer, drinking it for no really explicable reason other than that it was illicit and therefore cool.
Well, at least the men aren't wearing their ball caps backwards.
mmm fun!
I quit smoking the same time, and the same reason i quit drinking (my neurosurgeons said "it'd be BAD"). And Here's a funny thing
i got out of the coma, and then out of brain rehab; and went back to my life. And lots of people would say:
"your brain seems to Completely Recovered, you seem just as smart as you used to be"
This surprised me, 'cause I could SURE tell that my brain was NOT completely recovered, and that i was a shadow of myself, smarts wise.
At first, i just figured that people were being polite (which was, of course, a huge part)
But THEN i realized; that those people had NEVER seen me when i wasn't stoned.
So, that's my $0.02; being stoned isn't bad at all... It's not any worse than having your head hit the pavement at 45 mph, and having a Traumatic Brain Injury that leaves you in a coma and brain damaged for life
PS: I am a lifelong progressive Democrat
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Is that warning or plea!?
Don't you dare call me human scum of progressive (in spirit if not practice.)
Being a “lifelong progressive Democrat” means being surprised by reality even into your dotage - If you notice it.
"contemplating their apparent self-satisfaction that this is good for society"
What would progressivism be without the self-satisfaction? And then there's the satisfaction of seeing others crushed under your enlightened yoke.
"I weep for the children"
Clearly, not your average prog, who enjoys making deplorables weep.
"PS: I am a lifelong progressive Democrat."
Figures. Today's progs need heavier mugging by reality than the old neocons.
Conservative (small-c) with how the author lives her own life.
Sees that conservatism works.
Wants to push others toward socialism and death.
This passes for rational thinking in some circles.
I would expect a lot of Cheetos on the menu.
"PS: I am a lifelong progressive Democrat"
Too bad. The only known cure for that is death.
Stoned-while-skiing is the new Rocky Mountain High chic.
I can tell you that life-long old timers who still like to ski are mortified.
Just what the nation's elite and political class want for the populace: legalized intoxicating blasts of stupefaction.
If you can't afford this joint, there's always Jack-in-the-Box.
I live in NoCal, a transplant from the Midwest four years ago. I will leave soon—I am hoping a change in role at my employer will allow me to relocate. One of the things that will drive me out is the weed. I hate the smell—and it is everywhere. And I hate the way people act when they are stoned. They are just stupid. Drunk people are also stupid—but someone who drinks at 11:00 in the morning and stumbles around drunk will be shunned. Most people confine their alcohol consumption to certain hours and in certain places. Californians wander around—and drive around—stoned at all hours.
I am a runner and can’t count the times a car passes me with clouds of weed smoke billowing from it. These people are driving impaired. Period. No one seems to care. Yes, people drive drunk—and if they get caught, get punished. It is obvious to me that people who drive high are just as impaired as drunks.
Perhaps the multitudes in CA get high all the time to numb themselves to the idiocies they have implemented as policy.
It's an interesting pairing of two different kinds of self indulgence.
Potheads indulge themselves passively. They like simple things that are easy to get, like candy and cartoons.
The upscale restaurant crowd are more active and striving. They care which restaurant they're going to, and they pay attention to minor variations in sourcing and preparation.
Both activities are types of self indulgence, but I'm not sure they're compatible types. Are potheads going to make reservations, show up on time, wait for a table, and do all the other high end restaurant stuff? Or are they going to stay home and smoke more pot?
Having lived in Boulder for many years, if I were setting up a "pairs well with pot" restaurant, I'd go for pizza delivery.
One of the reasons it's hard to research the effects of pot is that researchers are confined to a strain from U of Mississippi with same THC content as seventies, 2 percent or less. Today legal pot 15 percent average and illegal often much more.
This pairs well with the wine story above it.
I strayed into a restaurant in Trinidad, Colorado which is very prosperous town on the New Mexico border with in a green light part of town. All the stores and bars and pubs had a light green band across them or the word Dispensary in 6 foot green letters. The nice-looking restaurant I went into mentioned actual food on the sign outside but we were a surprise to each other. Still I was very nicely treated, food excellent. I took the mint out of the lemonade and smelled it and studied the lettuce in the salad closely, but it was just good food. All around me were people with long grey hair and stupid looks on their faces, and some pathetic young people holding brown paper sacks and looking ecstatic. No one was smoking there. There's no doubt these were damaged people, especially when you see them all together at 2 in the afternoon. But it's a subtle thing. Of course, I probably looked like a chipmunk, holding food up to my nose, sniffing and nibbling, shooting glances in every direction.
PS Smoking in a restaurant? What if someone lit up a cigarette? Would people be able to complain about "second-hand smoke?"
The younger generations are going to have to fork out for the 15-20% of schizoids. No, you can’t get your hip replacement or your cataract surgery because of.....
I’m kind of glad I’m my age.
Only people with money to burn would spend $27 on a rolled joint.
I've been to pot stores in Washington and Colorado. All have armed guards, because the government forced the banks to refuse to service credit cards in such stores, and all transactions are in cash.
Like any other store they have salespeople, called budtenders. Like other sales people, these budtenders offer a mix of useful information and wharzgabble. "The THC percentage isn't really the important number. The important number is the wharzgabble percentage." What exactly is wharzgabble? "Wharzgabble is the cronky facaia measurement of despatchness."
But what impressed me is the customers. In both places, nearly all the customers were women. A large portion were women under 30. Then there were lots of women over 40. I guess wine fills the gap. My wife said both groups were driven to use weed to conquer anxiety. For the younger gals, the want to relax enough to enjoy sex more. The older gals just want to relax.
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One of the reasons it's hard to research the effects of pot is that researchers are confined to a strain from U of Mississippi with same THC content as seventies, 2 percent or less. Today legal pot 15 percent average and illegal often much more
I think, the most important thing for our society to do, is to get marijuana OFF of the Schedule One list. As i understand it; Schedule One Status is what makes it next to impossible to do research on it.
Everyday i hear or read someone saying that:
Pot is The Safest Thing In The World; they've Never found ANYTHING wrong with it
and i think; isn't That because they can't research it?
People say it doesn't cause Cancer; they MEAN, there's no cancer research done on it
Let's reschedule marijuana, and do some Real testing; then let's see?
On the weed menu are vape pens with 'cold pressed cannabis oil' ($60)
Wait! Wasn't it vaping "cannabis oil" that led to the lung damage among those vapers a while back, and now has all the Nanny-Staters trying to shut down vaping in general?
Oh, but, hey, "this is hi-end shit, man!".
Uhhh-huh.
Tobacco and alcohol have killed family members and friends far before an American's average life span. I assume marijuana will kill more.
I am a baby-boomer. I am no stranger to the effects of marijuana. Any glamour was gone for me years ago. I see drinkers, smokers, and potheads as losers.
No one has written a book name "How to Make Friends and Influence People While Staying Stoned." Maybe there is a market for it now.
maybe Bobbie Z's "Band of the Hand" deserves a re-post
Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb
Turning children into punks and slaves
Whose heroes and healers are rich dope dealers
Who should be put in their graves
Also interesting is the story linked to below all the stoners:
"Ellen DeGeneres Just Bought a Vintage Rolex. It Only Cost around $750,000. And she has a new watch friend in Amsterdam. Ain’t life grand?"
So this woman had the gall to claim George Bush as a friend and suggest that people can be friends with other human beings who don't think exactly the same way, and what happens next? The NYT runs a snide hit piece on her and her new friend and how much money she just spent -- not just on the watch but also on her visit to the Netherlands:
"This made the stop, conservatively, a $300,000 meet cute, though Mr. Lijfering declined to discuss any pricing ..."
How dare she decide how to spend the money she earned in our corrupt free-market economy! See what happens when you start hanging out with war criminals at football games?
No alcohol. Anybody know why weed smokers (and eaters - talk about uncontrolled dosing) are and have always been so snooty about drinking? And Anne the runner-commenter, you've provided a lot of subject matter there if you know what I mean. Runners are probably going to bring us a new prohibition, federal tax on our production, an upsized federal reserve (and more giant wars further to the second and third items). Grundoon the boomer do you have any new proposals for how people should live?
Re Ellen DeG, he_she_they_it was pictured with George Bush and that was then showed to us so as to get her aimless fans potentially to align temporarily with the neocons against Trump in hopes of preventing any downward involvement in what remains of Syria and ensuring that the flow of warbucks for Syria ops. and other uses would continue. That need is now apparently ended by Trump's brash acts, so she can be discarded in some of the weakest minds with basic class warfare and anti-timepiece tactics. Clapper could be envisioned ordering the NYT to "take the kill shot" as he did with what remains of the WaPo in regards to Flynn and the apparent 302-editing, perjuring, and possibly gallows-bound Lisa Page, in what will be regarded as one of the most stupidly worded orders ever given to a corrupted agenda driven employee of a Democratic Party propaganda organ.
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