While most Portlanders are all too familiar with cafés of the coffee-serving variety, there’s a new café coming to town worth noting.
It’s Oregon’s first cannabis café (a concept common elsewhere around the globe) and it will be run by Oregon NORML
It’s scheduled to open Friday, Nov. 13, naturally at 4:20pm.
Sadly, only members both of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program and NORML can partake in the experience (the café is legal under the guidelines of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act), but maybe they’re accepting applications for servers. Snacks and items from sellers like Stoned Made will be available, along with a full range of pot to sample. The café will be a resource for the medical marijuana community, and Oregon NORML also hopes to provide seminars and classes there.
Friday, Nov. 13, 4:20pm. Rumpspankers, 700 NE Dekum St, Portland. For the Grand Opening, the entry fee will be $25, which covers the first month of membership and an all-day entry pass.
This new cannabusiness operates under two premises from the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act. One, cardholders are allowed to freely exchange marijuana with each other for “no consideration” – that is, no buying, selling, trading, favors, gifts, or exchanges. Its the reason you’ve never heard of much federal interference with Oregon’s medical marijuana program: there’s no commerce involved. (Isn’t interesting how dangerous marijuana is to the authorities when people are making money off of it, but when it’s exchanged freely by over 25,000 cardholders, there’s not enough danger to the public for the feds to be interested?
Two, patients are allowed to medicate so long as they are not “in public view”. A private club for a membership-based organization in a building with its windows covered by drapes is out of public view. Oregon NORML will be strictly carding all entrants o the café to verify cardholder status.
We discussed the café with Madeline Martinez, director of Oregon NORML, on the last NORML SHOW LIVE. She tells us, “It’s exciting because there are so many of our most vulnerable patients who have no real social outlets. They can’t really go to concerts or clubs because they can’t medicate and nobody can really enjoy themselves if they are forced to sit in pain. At our café patients can relax and meet others, learn about the program, sample different strains of medicine to find what might work best for them, they can get some snacks and drinks and even purchase some great stuff from Urb Age and Stoned Made and others that helps support the community.”
Hi there all, this is papadan here, I am new to this site, I am however a OMMP card holder, and I am trying to recover from colon cancer. At 52, this is all new to me, and I find it all very confusing at best. I just wanted to say hello, and I am looking forward to checking out the cannibis cafe downtown, maybe I can learn a few thing’s there, you all have a great day,
I guess I should have sated that the reason I did caps was so you could tell my words apart from her words. It was not to shout. As far as the image go for OGF I am not a spokes person for it. I saw this person post a comment putting OGF on blast because she in my words was to lazy to figure her own stuff out. Now is that a testament to all the people that live in WA that have their cards? No, just like my actions are not a testament of the OGF. What we have here is a clear case of an opinion being made by robinrose over her idea of how the laws treated her. We all know that that the color yellow is yellow but what happens when someone calls the color yellow black. Yes that is their opinion but their opinion would not be correct. Oregon has laws and Washington has laws. And like I have stated before “medical marijuana is to important for so many people to risk”. So is it worth it for the OGF to make an exception for someone in WA? NO, just like the color yellow is not black. Some might have an opinion that is should be but it still comes back to the greater good of the people in need or wait THAT EACH STATE HAS THEIR OWN SET OF LAWS. I even stated that I would help robinrose if she lived here in oregon. But again I can not because she lives in a different state. Even in my other post I explained how my adventure started with the OMMP. So I say again the laws are pretty wacky but they are put in place for a reason. I think this thread is good because I hope it will inspire someone in Vancouver WA, to start something to help people like robinrose. Well, folks I hope that Robinrose or my self have not ruined the idea of OGF for people looking to get started or need help. And If you live in OREGON I would suggest checking them out. http://www.oregongreenfree.net/
All right, people, enough shouting and invective. You’re not doing the image of OGF any favors.
I LOVE THE WAY YOUR START OFF WITH. . . .
“I can definitely tell you’re an OGF member! You’r flaming post is the exact type of “compassionate care” that I got from them.”
YES I AM AN OGF MEMBER. WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE IS THAT YOU LIVE IN WASHINGTON AND OGF IS IN OREGON. SO GET OVER THE FACT THAT OGF IN YOUR WORDS “SHUNS YOU”. BECAUSE IN YOUR FIRST POST YOU SAID “why is it that if you are a WA vs an ommp card holder places like this new club as well as the other organizations such as Oregon Green Free shun you if you dont live on this side of the fence?”
GET WHY PEOPLE THINK YOU HAVE A WARPED SENSE OF WHY OGF COULD NOT HELP YOU. YOU DID NOT INDICATE THAT “not to mention them having me go through ALL the hoops, faxes, etc, before telling me “sorry, can’t help you.” It wasnt the information, it was how it was delivered. They also could have offered me WA resources since I am POSITIVE they have them.”
FIRST OFF IT IS CALL OREGON GREEN FREE NOT WASHINGTON GREEN FREE. AND IF YOU HAVE DONE THESE THINGS LIKE YOU SAID “As for having common sense and knowing the laws, I have been an active participant in passing both prop 215 in Ca, as well as being one of the first medical patients in the state of WA.” WTF ARE YOU CALLING OREGON SOUNDS LIKE YOU GOT YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM USING YOUR KNOWLEDGE ON HOW TO FIND THE PROPER RESOURCE.
YES I CALLED YOU LAZY. IF YOU HAVE THE TIME TO GET ON THIS BOARD AND BLAST OGF THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE THE TIME TO FIND THE PROPER RESOURCE IN YOUR AREA. LAZY IS AN ADJECTIVE THAT I USED TO DESCRIBE YOUR ATTEMPTS AT FINDING A RESOURCE CENTER IN YOUR STATE. SURE YOU LIVE IN VANCOUVER AND SEATTLE IS 4 HOURS AWAY. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE PEOPLE IN MEDFORD OREGON DO WHEN PORTLAND IS 6 HOURS AWAY DO THEY CRY TO CALIFORNIA. . . NO THEY DONT BECAUSE SOMEONE STARTED A CHAPTER OF OGF THERE.
MY FAV PART ABOUT YOUR POST WAS YOU SAID “The only point I was trying to make (which you missed by the way) is that I UNDERSTAND why the caregivers/growers/clubs cant help us, but the least they could do is point us in the right direction instead of slamming the door in our face.” IN YOUR FRIST POST YOU NEVER SAID THAT AT LEAST THEY COULD HELP POINT US IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. WHEN I GOT MY CARD I PAID THE THCF THEIR CUT AND THEN THE STATE OF OREGON THEIR CUT AND WAS TURNED LOOSE WITH NO DIRECTION. I NEVER SMOKED UNTIL I WAS TOLD THAT IT WOULD HELP WITH MY CONDITION. SO I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO OR WHERE TO TURN. THAT IS THE FAULT OF A LOT OF THE STATES PROGRAMS THEY TAKE YOUR MONEY AND RUN. THEY SAY HERE YOU GO NOW FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO. I AM NOT GOING TO USE MY CONDITION AS A TALKING POINT TO GET PEOPLE TO FEEL SORRY FOR ME AFTER I TRASH A PLACE THAT HAS HELPED 1000′S OF PEOPLE LIKE OGF.
BUT THIS IS THE POINT WHERE I SAY TO YOU THAT YOU HAVE GONE WAY OVER THE POINT TO THE PLACE OF MAKING YOUR SELF LOOK LIKE A REAL A$$HOLE “I hope you stop being such a mean person, this is about medicine, and people like you could ruin it for all of us by being rude and heartless.” YOU THINK IT IS PEOPLE LIKE ME TRYING TO RUIN IT. . . . NO IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU TRYING TO GET INVOLVED IN ANOTHER STATE WHERE YOU CLEARLY DO NOT HAVE A CARD. COMMON SENSE WINS AND YOU LOOSE. SO I SAY TO YOU READY MY FRIST POST AGAIN WHERE I SAID “The sad part is that if you really needed help and you lived in oregon I would help you but the laws prevent me from doing so. And medical marijuana is to important for so many people to risk” WHO IS THE A$$HOLE NOW?
For the record, I have a life and do not need “respect” or “credibility” from anyone on the internet. I made a comment, posed a question, and a couple of guys with nothing better to do than bash disabled people have attacked me. Sorry I gave you a little of your own medicine back in the last post. It’s not really my style to be hateful so I will leave you with this….You’re anger, negativity, and aggressive attititude is only hurting you, I hope you find a healthy outlet for it.
I’m unsubscribing from the thread, and wish you and your friend a little love and happiness, you both need it.
To the rest of the thread, happy clubbing! I hope its a wonderful resource for the MMJ community.
In Wa. there are those who actually believe that they have a state approved “licence”.
None of these people has been able to produce one of these “club/clinic cards” with a legal state seal.
The insistence of these …(what are they calling themselves this week ? dispensaries? co-ops? whatever) clubs that all of their clients aquire one of these cards just puts the client on yet another treadmill, turn in your recommendation that has no expiration date for one that you have to renew every year for 200 bucks a shot. Looks to me like a captive market with few choices.
I’ll keep my eyes open for a legitimate marketing model that doesn’t rape the consumer or place the vendor in jeopardy and let you know when I find something around here.
And I don’t hide my ID online like you so YIOU HAVE ZERO CREDIBILITY anyhow. I gave you a suggestion for improvement when I told you to get over it and you showed you have NO DESIRE to STOP crying that everyone hates you. YOU ARE ACTING LIKE A VERY PATHETIC PERSON. STOP IT and people might be nice to you instead of telling you where you need to get off at….