The Barbary Coast Collective lounge on Mission Street in San Francisco, California is the first Amsterdam-style coffee shop allowing on-premises cannabis consumption for any adult in California since January 2018. It is perhaps the first in the United States. Its interior "resembles a steakhouse or upscale sports tavern with its red leather seats, deep booths with high dividers, and hardwood floors".[1] Its owners include David Ho, described as a "political power player in Chinatown".[2] In opening another Barbary Coast Collective establishment, the first dispensary in the Sunset District, Ho had to negotiate with fellow Chinese-American citizens of the district who were opposed to cannabis businesses and cannabis advertising.[3][2]
The lounge features quartz glass appliances for dabbing cannabis concentrates and a "combustibles" smoking area for other products.[4]
High Times listed Barbary Coast as one of San Francisco's top 10 dispensaries and said its "old-school" ambiance was "what happens when cigar bars are actually cool".[5] It employed about 20 people in 2017.[6] Los Angeles Times called it "probably the best known" lounge in San Francisco, the city which "set the standard" in the United States.[7]
See also
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- Barbary Coast, San Francisco, the former red-light district
References
edit- ^ Paul Elias (March 15, 2018), San Francisco Embraces Amsterdam-Style Marijuana Lounges, The Associated Press – via US News
- ^ a b Michael Barba (December 5, 2017), "SF approves first ever medical cannabis dispensary in the Sunset", San Francisco Examiner
- ^ Rachel Swan (November 28, 2017), "Power broker's involvement in S.F. pot club hits resistance", San Francisco Examiner
- ^ Tony Bravo (March 17, 2017), "The most decadent pot smoking lounge in the West", San Francisco Chronicle
- ^ Jay Mack, "The 10 Best Marijuana Dispensaries in San Francisco", High Times
- ^ Melia Robinson (June 24, 2017), "What it's like to work as a 'budtender' in the legal marijuana industry", Business Insider – via Yahoo! Sports
- ^ Michael Smolens (March 17, 2019). "San Diego considers cannabis lounges. San Francisco set the standard". Los Angeles Times.
Further reading
edit- "Legal Cannabis Lounges Booming in San Francisco", Oakland Post, December 21, 2018