This two-story building was a First Interstate Bank before sitting vacant for two years. Perfect for? Ganja-enhanced game night or a mid-street-fair sesh. The consumption lounge opens at the same time and closes nightly at 9:45 p.m. That’s probably why there’s a three-hour limit on your hang time here Fridays through Wednesdays it’s 30 minutes on Thursdays, when the lounge is a popular pop-in for folks headed to (or coming from) the Villagefest, Palm Springs’ weekly nighttime street fair. With a dart board on the wall, movies on a big-screen TV and comfy upholstered seating and dim lighting all the way around, it feels like the kind of place you could while away an entire day. What you can expect is a narrow rectangle of a consumption lounge (maximum capacity 15), a bar cart full of games (Sorry!, Jenga, checkers and Connect 4), a basket of free snacks (Cheetos, potato chips and Doritos) and a $5 dab bar (which allows customers to purchase a single serving of cannabis concentrate). The thematic trappings of this centrally located dispensary and consumption lounge are limited to a handful of pointed-arch doorways and hanging Turkish mosaic lamps. Perfect for? Anyone seeking to sesh against a mostly Midcentury Modern backdrop.ĭon’t expect a full-blown vision of the Middle East. The last reservation of the day is one hour before the lounge’s closing time. ![]() on), which will be credited toward your dispensary purchase. Green Dragon manager Troy Solomon says the private room can accommodate a dozen people, and the capacity of the entire lounge is 60.Īlthough lounge walk-ins are welcome on a space-available basis (with a $30 minimum purchase), reservations can be made in advance via Tock with a $5-per-person reservation fee ($15 per person from 6 p.m. One corner of the room is outfitted with a pair of microphones on swing arms for the occasional podcast session, and a private space just beyond it is the sort you might decamp to for a birthday party or private event. With windows that look out over Palm Canyon Drive, the space fills with natural light during the day, which also makes it stand out from the rest of the city’s communal cannabis gathering places. So it’s probably worth pointing out that it happens to be right across the street from the Palm Springs Art Museum’s Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion.Īround the corner and a short elevator ride away from the dispensary floor, the second-floor lounge (with interior design by Art Department’s Bryant Berry) is awash in pops of color, including stucco orange behind the wood-patterned bar and mustard yellow in a private room, and mod fixtures that include high-backed, upholstered booth seating, wavy metallic mirror frames and vintage-looking ashtrays throughout. This centrally located, 1,900-square-foot space - which has the distinction of being the first licensed consumption lounge in Palm Springs - is the rarity among the city’s sanctioned smoking spots in that it seems to acknowledge the area’s bounty of Midcentury Modern architecture. Four of them are right in the heart of downtown Palm Springs one is a full-blown concert venue and at least two inhabit former bank buildings (ironic because cannabis’ illegal status at the federal level means the businesses are foreclosed from many traditional banking services). The ones on this curated list all brought a little something extra to the table that made them stand out. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although there was a lot of overstuffed-sofa, college-dorm-room sameness to many of the places, they all had one thing going for them: They provided safe, legal and wholly entertaining spaces to buy and consume cannabis products. In early January, armed with that list, I dashed out to the desert and checked out as many as I could (which turned out to be seven - two had yet to open and one was temporarily shuttered). That’s because while Los Angeles hasn’t issued a single consumption lounge license (the only two in the area are in West Hollywood), Palm Springs has issued 10, according to the most recent list provided by the desert city. Angelenos looking for a variety of communal cannabis experiences - legal ones, anyway - might want to consider road-tripping to Palm Springs for a weed weekend.
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