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California considers legalizing cannabis cafes to help struggling marijuana industry

The Artist Tree Dispensary& Weed Delivery West Hollywood in West Hollywood, California is also an art gallery, showing art specifically for pot smokers.

LOS ANGELES — You order a sandwich, a coffee and a marijuana cigarette, then settle in for a musical performance. This could become the future under a bill aimed at changing the landscape of cannabis use in California.

The legislation put forward this month by Assemblyman Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) would legalize the sale of food and nonalcoholic beverages at cannabis retailers and lounges.

"It's not unlike a neighborhood bar or cafe where people gather and get a lot of social value [out] of that,"

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