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Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN]
    #9282149 - 11/20/08 10:19 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

Downtown coffee house busted for pot
November 20, 2008 - thestar.com

Toronto police raided a popular downtown coffee house frequented by medical marijuana users and other cannabis-smoking patrons.

More than a dozen officers converged on Kindred Cafe, on Breadalbane St., near Yonge St. and Wellesley Ave., about 7 p.m. Thursday.

Two people were taken into custody and four others were issued summonses for trafficking and possession of marijuana before police began removing furniture, electronic equipment, coffee machines and paraphernalia used to smoke.

A group of activists gathered outside as police loaded a five-tonne truck and carted away many of the cafe's contents.

The three-storey building has a restaurant on the main floor, lounges on the second floor and a rooftop patio with propane heaters and a canopy where patrons can legally smoke outside. It has been in business since 2000 and sells free-trade coffee beans and pastries, some allegedly laced with cannabis.

"They don't sell any cannabis in this establishment," said an angry Matt Mernaugh, an activist and registered medical marijuana user, who arrived as the police raid was underway.

He was searched by officers and turned away.

"This is just a place for people who use medical marijuana to socialize," he added.

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Re: Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN] [Re: veggie]
    #9282423 - 11/20/08 11:08 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that was the sickest place to go i was fucking their the day before it got raided. it was the most chills place. their were rooms wit vaporizers and an xbox 360 u can just chil out to. their was food that had weed in it tho thats proly how they got booked. fuck the police man.

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Re: Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN] [Re: veggie]
    #9282597 - 11/20/08 11:48 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

that's so sad.:cheech:


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Re: Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN] [Re: travelleler]
    #9282739 - 11/21/08 12:31 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

Whaaaaat?! DAMN! That place was pretty cool!
One less pot friendly store in Toronto...what a sad day...

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Re: Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN] [Re: junkyardgod]
    #9283958 - 11/21/08 09:00 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

Wow, they did sell Pot smoothies which I heard from friends were incredible.  I really hope BCMP doesn't become a target, that would be very low to hit the vape lounge.


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This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.

Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."

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Re: Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN] [Re: Cannashroom]
    #9284030 - 11/21/08 09:16 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

I really hope BCMP doesn't become a target




careful how loud you say that dude.  :cop:


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Re: Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN] [Re: travelleler]
    #9290800 - 11/22/08 10:05 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

NO!!!!! BOOOOO!!!!!!!!! IT CANT BE!! IT JUST CANT BE!!!

that place rocked... im so sad now!!!


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Re: Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN] [Re: ShroomieGirl]
    #9290831 - 11/22/08 10:17 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

I have no more faith in this world...  what the hell is wrong with pot?? really?

im tired of this right


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Re: Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN] [Re: veggie]
    #9302652 - 11/24/08 08:51 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

November 24, 2008 - TheStar.com

Pot café owner to turn himself in
Medical marijuana supporters to rally today

Dominic Cramer, owner of the coffee shop raided by Toronto police last week on suspicion of marijuana trafficking, will turn himself in at 52 Division this evening, says his lawyer, Alan Young.

Cramer is expected to attend a bail hearing at Old City Hall tomorrow morning.

The Kindred Café, frequented by medical marijuana users and other pot-smoking customers, has never been raided before and Cramer has no criminal record. Young said he did not know what charges would be laid.

"To the best of my knowledge it's a case about edibles that allegedly involved marijuana," Young said.

Cramer, in his mid-30s, was not present last Thursday evening when more than a dozen officers descended on the three-storey café located on Breadalbane St. near Yonge and Wellesley Sts. They issued a warrant for his arrest.

Police seized most of the cafe's furniture and equipment and took two people into custody.

Customers who are not legally cleared to smoke marijuana for medical purposes may use the premises to smoke dope, but they bring their own supply. "Anyone found trafficking would be immediately ejected," says Chad Cooke, a spokesperson for the café and a user with a federal exemption for medical use.

The Kindred Café occupies a Yonge/Wellesley neighbourhood known as Yongesterdam (in reference to Amsterdam, where marijuana use is legal) for its cluster of businesses catering to cannabis users.

Kindred's customers can purchase a day pass or longer-term membership to rent time in private rooms or they can use a rooftop patio where smoking is allowed.

This morning at 8 a.m. an hour-long rally in front of Old City Hall at Bay and Queen Sts. was expected to draw a good-sized crowd in support of Cramer and the rights of medically exempt cannabis users.

"It's going to be very peaceful," Cooke said. "There is no antagonism toward the police."

The police cited community complaints as the reason for the raid.

The café has been closed since the raid but is expected to reopen this week. Cramer has been operating Kindred Café for three years.

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Re: Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN] [Re: veggie]
    #9306589 - 11/24/08 07:50 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

fuckin gay as gay! man... imma miss that place....

i already do....


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Re: Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN] [Re: ShroomieGirl]
    #9308197 - 11/24/08 10:55 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

Their special hot chocolates were my favourite!

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Re: Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN] [Re: veggie]
    #9308913 - 11/25/08 03:19 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

Hash Mob smokes its point
November 25, 2008 - Toronto Sun

Charges at Kindred Cafe trigger protest

They passed around a joint for the coffee shop they love. About a dozen people -- many smoking pot -- gathered at Old City Hall yesterday to protest marijuana trafficking charges laid at the Kindred Cafe last week.

Members of the Toronto Hash Mob chanted, "We're here, we're high, get used to it!" to early morning commuters on Queen St. W.

"If we legalize and regulate marijuana, then we can easily raise $1 billion in this province to get people homes, food and jobs," said Hash Mob member Michael Bone, 55. "Let us have our medicine."

Two employees were charged with trafficking and five patrons for possession of marijuana after a raid late Thursday sparked by complaints in the Yonge-Wellesley Sts. community, police said.

The cafe's owner Dominic Cramer's bail hearing is set for 9 a.m. today at Old City Hall.

Undercover officers claim they purchased marijuana-laced milkshakes, hot chocolates and baked goods inside the club.

"We don't understand why (the charges) happened after three years of being in business," Chad Cooke, a spokesman for the Kindred Cafe, said at the rally. "We have a rooftop patio for marijuana users, mostly for medicine. We thought it was an okay thing." The coffee shop on Breadalbane St. has very "strict rules" for rooftop patio users and "nothing is sold there. People are bringing it themselves."

The cafe will re-open in a few days, he said.

Officers found that many people didn't have government-issued certificates for medicinal marijuana use, Det.-Sgt. Paul MacIntyre said.

A YouTube video of the cafe in which an employee states, "this is not a legal business, we choose to break some laws," piqued police interest, MacIntyre said.

"I can't say if there's any ongoing investigations right now on other cafes, but we do follow up on any complaints we get," he said. "Kindred Cafe was not on our radar until we got a complaint."

The raid has caused similar coffee houses to keep a low profile. A Kensington Market tobacco shop and cafe owner said she "didn't want to make any comment and please don't mention (the name of) mine in the story."

Not surprising, said Cramer's lawyer, Alan Young, who estimates there are a half dozen such cafes in the city.

"The idea is to fly slightly under the radar screen and be transparent so that you're not hiding anything, but you don't throw it into people's face," Young said.

"Police have been fairly tolerant because they have more pressing priorities. Without that suspicion of trafficking, I think police were quite happy to leave things alone."

Vancouver cannabis libertarian Marc Emery called the police raid over a "$15 milkshake, allegedly with cannabis in it" a waste. "There's no public safety reason to arrest pot people. The (raid) probably costs the taxpayers of Toronto $20,000. It's good to see that Toronto can afford all that in these dark times."

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Re: Pot friendly coffee shop raided [CAN] [Re: veggie]
    #9308921 - 11/25/08 03:33 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

"We're here, we're high, get used to it!"
November 25, 2008 - TheStar.com


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