Inside America apos;s First Legal Cannabis Cafe Lowell Farms

America's first cannabis cafe opened its doors this week in West Hollywood with weed sommeliers serving joints paired with stoner-friendly dishes prepared by a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef.
Lowell Farms Cannabis Cafe, backed by celebrity investors including , Mark Ronson, sister and brother xxx Sarah Silverman and Chris Rock, hosted hundreds of diners on its first night enthusiastically taking huge hits from skull-shaped bongs and vaporizers, filling the room with smoke from their pre-rolled joints and munching on cannabis-infused 'edibles.'
The cafe was given the green light by West Hollywood local government last month after a four-year campaign to become the first restaurant selling cannabis in the United States.
The Lowell Cafe offers 'Tableside Flower Service', where 'akin to a sommelier, a Flower Host will explain strains, flavors and their effects all while rolling your smoke for you', and the option to 'pair a cannabis strain with a dish that complements its particular flavor profile'. 
Grand opening: Lowell Farms Cannabis Cafe in Los Angeles is the first restaurant in the US where customers can smoke and buy marijuana legally 
The cafe opened its doors on Tuesday night, drawing in hundreds of customers, following a four-year campaign. Above, diners are seen taking hits from their joints with their meals
Weed sommeliers, called 'Flower Hosts' serve marijuana enthusiasts joints paired with dishes prepared by a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef
Hollywood-funded: Comedian Chris Rock, Miley Cyrus, DJ Mark Ronson and Sarah Silverman are among celebrity investors  
Company founders Sean Black and David Elias beat more than 300 other businesses to secure one of just eight licenses offered by the city allowing brick and mortar firms to sell marijuana in West Hollywood.
'For us the biggest thing is to be approachable, especially for people who aren't experienced in cannabis,' said Kevin Brady, the company's operations director.
'We're employing this idea of a 'budtender', like a restaurant would have a wine sommelier, but a little bit less pretentious.
'When a guest sits at a table, the budtender has a conversation with them, understands their experience with cannabis, and guides them to what they're looking for.
'You have the option of buying joints, rolling your own joints, and renting bongs or pipes, all the way up to dab rigs and vapes, all with the idea of education, with someone who can walk you through those experiences.'
Alongside a menu of stoner-friendly food like burgers and mac n cheese, the restaurant has a weed menu 'like a wine list', with information on seasonal varieties of marijuana and the local farms where the flowers are grown. 
Diners were seen taking hits from skull-shaped bongs and vaporizers, filling the room with smoke from their pre-rolled joints and munching on cannabis-infused 'edibles'
Customers have the option of buying joints, rolling their own joints, and renting bongs or pipes
Nikki Gronau (pictured) said that as a social media influencer for the cannabis industry, she'd been looking forward to visiting the restaurant since she first heard of it about a year ago.

She described the atmosphere as 'super chill' 
Company founders Sean Black and David Elias beat more than 300 other businesses to secure one of just eight licenses offered by the city
Varieties supplied by Lowell feature lurid and humorous names including Kushberry Cheesecake, Kosher Dog, big sexy women xxx OG and Space Coyote Hash, Super Sour Diesel and Chiquita Banana.

Cannabis-infused chocolate squares, gummies and mints are also available to get patrons high.
Servers at the cafe said patrons are allowed to bring their own cannabis, for a $20 'tokage' fee - similar to a restaurant's corkage.
To preserve the restaurant's 'bright open and airy concept', and to avoid pungent smoke billowing into neighbors' yards, Lowell Farms uses specialized $200,000 industrial extractor fans favored by casinos, cigar lounges and chemical laboratories to suck away the floral fumes its patrons will generate.
Porn actress Adira Allure, 24, told DailyMailTV said it was 'awesome' to be able to order food while smoking weed 
No expense has been spared for the decoration either, with the restaurant's outdoor area featuring two 60-year-old olive trees imported from Italy.
Actress and model Adira Allure, 24, told DailyMailTV she was delighted to find a spot in her neighborhood where she could eat and smoke freely.
'I've smoked weed for a long time.

I've smoked in many clubs and stuff already, but it was really awesome to order fresh food with it, I've never had that experience,' she said.
'The vibe was very relaxed - but also very crowded and intense at the same time. I can see people who haven't smoked before coming here and trying something, getting too high, and it being quite intense.
'I think immediately more places like this are going to start popping up.'
Adaeze Njaka, 31, who came for opening night with her four friends, said the restaurant felt different to a normal bar.
'You can tell, there's no alcohol sold here but people are still having fun, the feel loose and everyone's smiling,' she said.
'Cannabis makes you social, it makes you feel free.

It lowers your inhibitions, but not so much as alcohol where you make enemies as opposed to friends. Even in the five minutes we've been here we've barely been able to eat because we've been chatting to people. Everyone is in such a good mood.'
The restaurant aims to employ the idea of a 'budtender' - similar to a wine sommelier - but 'less pretentious'.

Pictured above is flower host, Ellis Allen 
The restaurant offers varieties of weed on its menu including, Kushberry Cheesecake, Kosher Dog, big sexy women xxx OG and Space Coyote Hash, Super Sour Diesel and Chiquita Banana 
Servers at the cafe said punters are allowed to bring their own cannabis, for a $20 'tokage' fee - similar to a restaurant's corkage 
There is also a non-infused food menu from renowned chef Andrea Drummer, author of Cannabis Cuisine 
Njaka's friend, Nikki Gronau, said that as a social media influencer for the cannabis industry, she'd been looking forward to visiting the restaurant since she first heard of it about a year ago.
'Usually on opening days it's really hectic, but here it was super chill which makes sense with the stoner vibes,' Gronau said. 
'For me there's nothing better than hanging out on a nice California day, smoking a joint, talking to friends and eating some delicious food.
'At first I was a little skeptical because usually cannabis gives you dry mouth and that's usually not the best to eat nachos in, but I got the vegan nachos and they were absolutely delicious.

I also got these spicy, deep-fried mac n cheese balls, so good. If you loved this write-up and you would like to get a lot more info regarding xxx porn Full movie online kindly check out our internet site. '
A security guard outside the cafe, one of six standing watch on opening night, told DailyMailTV it was the quietest restaurant or bar job he'd ever had.
To preserve the restaurant's 'bright open and airy concept', and to avoid pungent smoke billowing into neighbors' yards, Lowell Farms uses specialized $200,000 industrial extractor fans to suck away the floral fumes
The establishment's chef, Andrea Drummer, was trained at the prestigious culinary school Le Cordon Bleu Los Angeles, and has since become an expert in cannabis-infused cuisine
'At bars people drink alcohol and then get aggressive, they're louder, they get into fights,' said the guard, who asked not to be named.

'Here, it's very mellow. Nobody's causing any trouble. It's probably the marijuana.'
The establishment's chef, Andrea Drummer, was trained at the prestigious culinary school Le Cordon Bleu Los Angeles, and has since become an expert in cannabis-infused cuisine.
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Chef Drummer has cooked for celebrities including artists Miguel and Wiz Khalifa, and comedian Chelsea Handler, and appeared on Netflix shows Chelsea Does and Cooking on High.
Lowell Farms said the restaurant, which seats 220 people, is fully booked for the next 30 days, and on its opening night lines outside stretched for three hours.
Selling and using cannabis for recreation remains illegal under US federal law, but has been legal in California since 2016 making it one of the 11 states in the country to permit its use. 


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