Urbn Leaf Moves Uptown
Los Angeles’s famous Sunset Strip has a storied and often sordid history as the epicenter of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll in America. The mile-and-a-half-long corridor has embraced its countercultural reputation, and its iconic venues like the Viper Room, the Roxy, the Whisky a Go Go, and the Comedy Store all have played pivotal roles as launchpads of American culture. While the strip was infamous for its hard-drug hedonism of the 1980s and early 1990s, cannabis largely has been absent—even as the City of West Hollywood launched an ambitious project to become the world’s premiere cannabis tourism destination. That looks set to change with the recent opening of Urbn Leaf West Hollywood , Sunset Strip’s first legal dispensary . While several high-profile stores dot nearby Santa Monica Boulevard and Melrose Avenue, San Diego native Urbn Leaf will be the first to plant its flag on the iconic strip. Surrounded by high-class clubs, plush hotels, and lavish boutiques, the dispensary ...