Pubdate: Sat, 08 Mar 2014
Source: Denver Post (CO)
Copyright: 2014 The Denver Post Corp
Contact:  http://www.denverpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/122
Author: Mitchell Byars, Daily Camera

POT CLUB TO OPEN IN A FEW WEEKS

Nederland - Club Ned is set to be the only cannabis cafe - a private 
club where members can go to smoke marijuana - in Boulder County when 
it opens sometime in the next few weeks.

Cheryl Fanelli and her husband, David, who have lived in Nederland 
for 25 years, are set to open Club Nedat 154 Colorado72 after a 
14-month battle to get approval from both the state and from the town 
of Nederland.

"It's awesome, it's really awesome," Cheryl Fanelli said. "It's been 
tough, but we've had the overwhelming support of the town, and 
without that it never would have gone through. The town deserves 
thanks for pushing it through."

While Amendment 64 made the purchase of recreational marijuana legal, 
smoking pot in public and shops is still illegal. So Fanelli said she 
wanted to open a place where people could gather to toke while 
enjoying one another's company.

"People like to socialize, people like to get together," Fanelli 
said. "It's the reason bars are in existence. It's way cheaper to 
drink at home, but humans are sociable creatures."

But opening such a place formarijuana posed a number of issues. Club 
Ned's attorney Jeff Gard, who works with several local marijuana 
businesses, said the major hurdle was the Colorado Clean Indoor Air 
Act, which does not allow indoor smoking of any sort in most buildings.

Gard said the solution was inspired by a Veterans of Foreign Wars 
post where he saw veterans smoking indoors.
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