With the new recreational law going into effect in July, all sorts of new businesses will be opening up across Oregon. An interesting niche has emergedโ€”cannabis-friendly lodgingโ€”and businesses like Bud and Breakfast have jumped on in. Bud and Breakfast provides listings on its website for weed-friendly places to stay while traveling. Co-founder and CEO Sean Roby says, “It might not be as big of a deal for people who live in states where [weed] is legal, but for people coming in from areas where it’s not, it’s a big deal to be able to stay in places where it is.”

Roby was traveling in New Zealand when his daughter called to inform him that Colorado had legalized recreational marijuana. As someone who loved travel, he saw a real entrepreneurial opportunity and ran with it. Located in Boulder, Colorado, Bud and Breakfast is a website that provides listings for lodgings all over the world (including Spain, Holland, Uraguay, Jamaica, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, and U.S. states where medical or recreational is legal). To qualify for a listing, a lodging must simply be cannabis-friendly in locations where it is legal, and offer space outside, inside, or both for safe weed use. “In places like Colorado you’re allowed to gift a certain amount, so some places will do things like leave a few joints on the pillow,” says Roby.

Bud and Breakfast does not handle any of the legal aspects concerning the lodgings; it simply provides the listings, and one can book a reservation from the website. With at least six states predicted to legalize either medical or recreational in 2016, business is looking better and better for Bud and Breakfast. As for Oregon? Roby says, “I think there are a lot of organizations that are starting to get in touch with us more than ever with the law going into effect in July.”

Weed thought you’d like to know.

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  1. In the prohibitionist’s world, anybody who consumes the slightest amount of marijuana responsibly in the privacy of their own homes are “stoners” and “dopers” that need to be incarcerated in order to to protect society.

    In their world, any marijuana use equates to marijuana abuse, and it is their God given duty to worry about “saving us all” from the “evils” of marijuana use.

    Who are they to tell us we can’t choose marijuana, the safer choice instead of alcohol for relaxation, after a long, hard day, in the privacy of our own homes?

    People who use marijuana are smart, honest, hard working, educated, and successful people too, who “follow the law” also.(except for their marijuana consumption under it’s current prohibition of course) .

    Not the stereotypical live at home losers prohibitionists make us out to be. We are doctors, lawyers, professors, movie stars, and politicians too.

    Several Presidents of The United States themselves, along with Justin Trudeau, Bill Gates, and Carl Sagan have all confessed to their marijuana use. As have a long and extensive list of successful people throughout history at one point or other in their lives.

    Although that doesn’t mean a dam thing to people who will make comments like “dopers” and “stoners” about anybody who uses the slightest amount of Marijuana although it is way safer than alcohol.

    To these people any use equals abuse, and that is really ignorant and full of hypocrisy. While our society promotes, advertises, and even glorifies alcohol consumption like it’s an All American pastime.

    There is nothing worse about relaxing with a little marijuana after a long hard day than having a drink or two of alcohol.

    So come off those high horses of yours. Who are you to dictate to the rest of society that we can’t enjoy Marijuana, the safer choice over alcohol, in the privacy of our own homes?

    We’ve worked real hard our whole lives to provide for our loved ones. We don’t appreciate prohibitionists trying to impose their will and morals upon us all.

    Has a marijuana user ever forced you to use it? Probably not. So nobody has the right to force us not to either.

    Don’t try to impose your morality and “clean living” upon all of us with Draconian Marijuana Laws, and we won’t think you’re such prohibitionist hypocrites.

    Legalize Nationwide! Support Each and Every Marijuana Legalization Initiative!

  2. What a brilliant idea! These marijuana friendly lodgings are great! Having a safe place to vacation and partake is awesome. Being well informed is key to this matter. One day, hopefully sooner than later, we’ll look back and think how silly all of the confusion and paranoia was regarding marijuana.

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