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After three years of providing a social spot in downtown Windsor for adult medical cannabis users to gather, get stoned and just hang out, Higher Limits shut its doors on the weekend after a final few puffs of weed.

The closure was forced, ironically, by the federal government’s legalization of marijuana for recreational use in October and the changes that triggered to the province’s Smoke Free Ontario Act.

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“We’re disappointed — it’s certainly becoming very restrictive,” Higher Limits co-owner Jon Liedtke said of the new rules that accompany the new law of the land when it comes to cannabis use and vape lounges.

In three years of operating — sometimes with up to hundreds of customers gathered for special events — the owners said they never felt the need for special security and that city police only had to be called in on one occasion, when a “street person” entered and tried to make off with a donations box for charity.