“Imagine if wine exists and we don’t know what we know on a more wine level,” he said. “Customers will eventually be able to really understand what they want. Like, ‘I want something that can be eaten and I want it to keep me awake’, or ‘I like smoking because it smokes faster. “
This basic level of comfort and confidence with weed is what helped Heidi Keyes, 36, find Puff, Pass and Paint in 2014 in Denver, after Colorado legalized recreational marijuana. The scene has locations in five cities across the country, including a studio in Brooklyn.
And although many other lounges and spaces are awaiting permits before opening to the public, Ms. Keyes said Puff, Pass and Paint have been operating comfortably in New York City for the past three years, when it starts to be called. medical patients to bring their own cannabis.
“We’re all BYOC, so we don’t supply any cannabis and we don’t operate as a dispensary of any kind,” she said. “Every different place we go, we have our attorney look at it to make sure, because there are different regulations for each state, county, city, sometimes neighborhood, sometimes. when the street.”
Ms. Keyes said the week of April 20 was one of the busiest times for the art class.
“It’s about community,” she said. “There used to be a lot of people who had to consume privately, and sometimes couldn’t even tell their friends and family about it because they were worried about getting in trouble with work or people judging them. price them.”
Fernando Terrero, 29, came to Brooklyn from Jersey City to go on a date with his boyfriend, Mr. Santos. A single red rose lay on the table beside their pictures.
