420 Girl - Madeline Martinez

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Set in an older blue collar neighborhood in North East Portland, NORMLs Cannabis Café, occupies a building that was reputed to be a speakeasy, Rumpspankers restaurant, during Prohibition, alcohol Prohibition, that is. It includes a meeting/concert space upstairs for about 200+ people, in addition to the Café downstairs. Oregon NORML signed a lease with the onsite restaurant operator and took over the business. NORML volunteers worked there non stop to turn the building into the Cannabis Café. Its opening became a world wide press event. Apparently a lot more people than Madeline Martinez, the executive director of NORML and owner of Cannabis Cafe, thought the NORMLs Cannabis Café was an idea whose time had come. It looks like nearly every other coffeehouse in town, except that shiny silver Volcano vaporizers are plugged into outlets lining the tiled bar and jars of donated pot line the shelves behind the bar waiting to be smoked by licensed users. Wi-Fi is available. Coffee, soft drinks, trays of Marsee Bakery pastries and sandwiches are also offered as ammunition against the inevitable attack of the munchies. The only people permitted in the Cannabis Cafe are those licensed to smoke who also hold membership in the lobbying group Oregon NORML. Patrons will be charged $5 a day. They can bring their own or smoke donated marijuana. Oregon law says medical marijuana may not be sold. - The Oregonian

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This is karaoke night at Portland's Cannabis Cafe, a combination of the bar from Cheers and a street side pot palace in Amsterdam. It is perfectly legal in this smoky room for medical marijuana patients to burn, eat, rub, filter and roll marijuana. There are cancer patients, AIDS patients and sufferers of smashed vertebrae and pinched nerves. There are also those who find refuge under Oregon's "severe pain" allowance, tell a marijuana friendly doctor you've got pain, and you've pretty much got weed. Since the medical marijuana law's passage in 1998, nearly 40,000 patients have gotten access. The pot in the cafe is brought in by patients or donated by growers. Money doesn't change hands unless it's to buy a sandwich or coffee. The price of admission: a $20 monthly charge and a $5 door fee. - The Salt Lake Tribune - Madeline Martinez pictured

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According to a study published in Journal of the American Medical Association in January 2012, marijuana does not impair lung function and can even increase lung capacity. Researchers looking for risk factors of heart disease tested the lung function of 5,115 young adults over the course of 20 years. Tobacco smokers lost lung function over time, but pot users actually showed an increase in lung capacity. It's possible that the increased lung capacity maybe due to taking a deep breaths while inhaling the drug and less from a therapeutic chemical in the drug. - Business Insider - Madeline Martinez pictured

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