Smoking is horrible for your health and for those around you. It’s interesting that the liberal viewpoint (which I share) advocates against cigar/smoking lounges because of health/environment impacts, but in this case may be in favor of of marijuana smoking lounges which share those exact same health/environmental impacts. I might buy the “equity” argument to some extent, but it lacks consistency because NOBODY has said we need cigar/nicotine consumption lounges and that has the same restrictions in renters’ homes/apartments as marijuana. I’m assuming this is directed at the advocates of cannabis consumption lounges, and not the writer of this article. Among the few others that have adopted such legislation are Springfield and Carbondale. Mundelein appears to be the Illinois community closest to Evanston that has legalized cannabis lounges. The American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation argues that ventilation systems are not sufficient to address the health concerns of indoor smoking of cigarettes or cannabis and that any allowed smoking space should be outdoors, unenclosed and out of public view.
Ogbo says approving cannabis smoking lounges would be “contrary to the long-fought endeavors to establish the city’s Clean Air Act.” In a memo to council members, Health Director Ike Ogbo said the Centers for Disease Control has determined that cannabis smoke delivers many of the same cancer-causing chemicals in tobacco smoke.
Under the ordinance as drafted, cannabis consumption lounges would be permitted as a special use in business, commercial, downtown and office zones within licensed cannabis dispensaries, but would have to be located in a freestanding building occupied solely by the dispensary.
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