New bill worries some local cannabis shop owners
A cannabis bill that’s moving its way through Springfield makes some shops a bit edgy with some saying a last-second change could ban all cannabis plants and sales in the state.
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A cannabis bill that’s moving its way through Springfield makes some shops a bit edgy with some saying a last-second change could ban all cannabis plants and sales in the state.
Lola Renner and Tyler Seitz want to help introduce people to pot products and help them understand how they work. So they opened the Canna Cafe.
Mengshin Lin/Sun-Times A new West Loop restaurant that infuses its offerings with a trendy, unregulated drug commonly described as “diet weed” quickly grew so popular that the local alderman had to intervene after neighbors complained about its long lines. The early success of Canna Cafe, 1301 W. Washington, comes as lawmakers and players in the legal cannabis industry call for a clampdown on Delta-8-THC, a hemp-derived compound similar to the component in weed that gets users high. The restaurant, which opened March 13 to great fanfare, uses the psychoactive substance in various menu ite...