Oakland's Root'd is setting its sights on opening a cannabis café — the first of its kind in the Bay Area, where customers can enjoy food and non-alcoholic beverages while legally consuming cannabis, thanks to AB 1775, a new California law that took effect on January 1.

According to Mercury News, AB 1775, which was authored by Assemblyman Matt Haney, stipulates that only licensed dispensaries with onsite consumption lounges can expand into cannabis cafés. While such cafés have already opened in Southern California — and several Bay Area dispensaries are eligible, none have officially made the move yet, which Haney finds surprising:

We are the undisputed capital of cannabis culture worldwide. And this is the future. People want to be able to consume cannabis with friends. They should be able to do it while having a sandwich and tea.

Some dispensaries are still reportedly figuring out the permit process surrounding food-handling.

Root’d dispensary in Oakland, which recently launched a 5,000 square-foot event space, now aims to add a café, but planning is still in the preliminary stage.

Chaz Walker, the vice chair of the Oakland Cannabis Regulatory Commission, told Mercury News that he believes cannabis cafés could help Oakland become the "number one cannabis tourism business in the world.”

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