Pubdate: Tue, 02 Apr 2002
Source: Sunday Telegraph (UK)
Copyright: Telegraph Group Limited 2002
Contact:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/437
Author: Hamida Ghafour

POLICE LET SECOND 'CANNABIS CAFE' OPEN

BRITAIN'S second cannabis cafe opened yesterday near a drug rehabilitation 
centre and with little interference from police.

The Dutch Experience in Bournemouth, Dorset, opened its doors to the 
strains of the popular song "Because I Got High", six months after the 
first cannabis cafe opened in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

The latest opening follows the more relaxed attitude of police to cannabis 
possession in Lambeth, south London.

By lunchtime yesterday, business seemed brisk and the former warehouse 
close to the Clouds Structured Day Treatment Programme, a drug 
rehabilitation centre, was full of people openly rolling and smoking 
cannabis joints. Jimmy Ward, 29, the owner, said he was abiding by the law.

Although patrons, some of whom are multiple sclerosis sufferers, are free 
to smoke cannabis in the members' room, no other drugs are permitted and no 
one under 18 will be admitted.
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