Toronto could soon have cannabis lounges popping up all over as the provincial rules that limit recreational post use to just private property may not work.
Abi Roach, a director at the Cannabis Friendly Business Association (CFBA) has been planning to ask the city committee to license cannabis lounges.
According to Roach, confining cannabis use to private property might work in a rural setting, but the restriction makes no sense in an urban environment like Toronto.
She said that people who smoke marijuana are unlikely to want to smoke it in the same home with their children or elderly parents.
She also said that hundreds of thousands of people rent their names or share homes so they will not be allowed to use marijuana.
She explained, “You try and find an apartment on Craigslist that has smoking allowed. Then there are the 1.5 million tourists who come to our city every year and are going to expect legal cannabis, they’re going to buy it, and they’re going to go to their non-smoking hotel rooms.”
According to Roach, the solution is to allow licensed cannabis lounges so that people can use the products and not expose neighbors to it.
“Cannabis consumers are now being hit as if we’re demons,” remarked Roach.
