Don’t expect to buy a latte and smoke a joint inside a San Francisco cannabis cafe anytime soon.

Despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s legalizing cannabis cafes and a statewide law going into effect last week that allows cannabis lounges to sell food and drinks, San Francisco’s pot lounges are still unable to prepare food. The city told SFGATE this week that there’s no estimate for when they will be able to do so.

The disconnect is due to the fact that while cannabis cafes are legal at the state level, city law still prohibits pot lounges in San Francisco from selling prepared food like a sandwich or an espresso.

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The consumption lounge at the Vapor Room, a cannabis dispensary on Ninth Street just south of Market Street, in San Francisco, on Dec. 4, 2024.

Assemblymember Matt Haney, the San Francisco Democrat who introduced the cannabis cafe bill in the California Legislature, told SFGATE he thought the city government would have been prepared to allow pot cafes to open up in SF after the state cleared the way.

“I honestly........

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