For operators who have pushed for the change for years, the vote landed as a milestone that fills a gap.
“We’re not allowed to smoke in parks, we’re not allowed to smoke on the street, we’re not allowed to smoke in apartments,” Mindy Galloway of The Pocket Dispensary told KCRA. Lounges, she said, give consumers a legal place to partake.
But not everyone was celebrating.
Kimberly Cargile, owner of licensed cannabis retailer A Therapeutic Alternative, told KCRA the permit costs could shut out smaller operators.
