Oregon Coast Town of Gold Beach Getting a Marijuana Drive-Thru

It claims to be nation's first, but isn't: Detroit has several along 8 Mile.

By Aaron Mesh

Would you like highs with that?

A rural Oregon coastal town is getting a recreational marijuana store with a drive-thru window.

Green Life Oregon plans to open this April in Gold Beach, a town in the economically strapped timberlands of Curry County.

The owners bragged this morning to the local newspaper, the Curry Coastal Pilot, that Green Life Oregon's drive-thru window will be the nation's first.

That's almost certainly not true. A medical-marijuana dispensary in Olympia, Wash., added a drive-thru window in 2012. As recently as last September, Detroit officials were fretting about several dispensaries with weed drive-thrus.

"Dozens of dispensaries line 8 Mile and other major thoroughfares in the city," wrote the Detroit Free Press, "and a Free Press investigation found that at least three offer drive-through service."

Green Life Oregon can still probably claim a spot as Oregon's first weed drive-thru: The state's medical marijuana program had barred drive-up and cart sales of cannabis.

Willamette Week

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Aaron Mesh

Aaron Mesh

Aaron Mesh is WW's editor. He’s a Florida man who enjoys waterfalls, Trail Blazers basketball and Brutalist architecture.

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