I Thought We Legalized Cannabis In Oregon
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First off..I love the World Famous Cannabis Cafe. I haven’t been to their new location, but the last one was terrific. I had a better time there visiting with people and listening to music than I’ve ever had in a bar..ever. So I was astonished to read an article saying they might have to close down or be fined in January by the Oregon Health Authority for allowing cannabis consumption on site. Odd, because cigar lounges are permitted in Portland. If they were going to be treated differently than cigar lounges, then the city should have explained that to them before issuing them a business license. Otherwise, close down the cigar lounges as well.
Oregon supposedly protects people from second-hand smoke and other pollutants in the work place. It’s the law here, and they’re clearly trying to apply that to the Cannabis Cafe, but not cigar lounges? I know firsthand how it can affect the workplace. When we had a business, we asked our landlord repeatedly to stop the guy in back from poisoning us with cigarette smoke. This went on for eight years. The commercial spaces were not airtight, so smoke, as well as automobile exhaust and paint fumes, came in the shop continually. After four years of dealing with this, I filed a complaint with the state. It didn’t stop the guy.
In 2013, we were forced to close our business of thirteen years upon receiving an eviction notice after complaining to the city that the same tenant allowed a friend to use his space to refinish a boat, twice filling our space with styrene fumes. Styrene is toxic to breathe, so we were unable to be open for business. We simply couldn’t allow customers to breathe styrene in view of how sick we became from breathing it. Since this occured in winter, we couldn’t leave the shop doors open to exhaust the fumes. Given the seasonal nature of a motorcycle business in our area, you make your bank in the summer for use in the winter. We were at the end of winter funds, and we didn’t feel we could responsibly sign a lease with anyone else not knowing if there would be enough of a season left when we got settled in to the new place to make winter’s bills. So, having no real choice, my husband left his 20+ year career and retired early. He’s a disabled veteran, so we at least have that to live on.
I’m not sure how we deal with something like this. We don’t allow smoking in bars anymore, yet there are apparently cigar lounges that exist. So I would think that same provision should extend to the cannabis lounges as well. Yet, the Oregon Health Authority disagrees. The governor signed into law legislative measures that essentially rewrote Measure 91 and now what’s legal is only so in areas where the yes vote was I believe above 56%. I would have never thought my vote didn’t matter in Oregon. But I know now that it doesn’t. Motor voter? For what? Registering more people whose vote doesn’t matter? Oregon has become a place I no longer recognize.
I hope the World Famous Cannabis Cafe stays open. These very nice folks have been through too much for this to happen now.
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