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It’s Friday, and if you’re in California, that may mean unwinding with a glass of wine, or, increasingly, a little green.

I’m talking about weed. And yes, almost exactly three years after Californians voted to legalize marijuana, it still feels slightly edgy to talk about cannabis consumption as openly as drinking in the pages of The New York Times.

Recently, that’s what I did in a piece for The Times’s Styles desk, about West Hollywood’s first weed consumption lounge, a restaurant named Lowell Farms: A Cannabis Cafe, and the state of California’s weed economy.

[Read the full story here.]

Lowell Farms is the first of what will be 16 consumption lounges in the city, which leaders say they hope will become a kind of cannabis destination — and will reap the economic benefits — while its bigger and slower moving counterparts, like Los Angeles, continue to grapple with how to fairly distribute coveted pot shop licenses.