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Smells like marijuana in the Million Dollar Hotel. This building and its signal remind us that movie by Win Wenders and U2.

The Normandie Hotel was built in the Los Angeles golden age of jazz, but after its recent refurbishment, the past year, it has now become a haven for the devotees of the cannabis culture.

It's really a logical step. It's a big city. And they needed me down here. And I needed a change”, Dennis Peron said, as one of those responsibles for the reopening of the Normandie, and a man who believes marijuana is a deeper part of the culture in Los Angeles than in San Francisco. “It's the people. It's the numbers. It's the pop culture. It's skaters.”

Located in the heart of Koreatown in Los Angeles (California) the Normandie is, after this re-opening of April 20, 2010, “the first hotel to smoke marijuana in the U.S.”.

The plan offered by Hotel Normandie is to charge $ 420 for two nights when you can smoke pot with no disturb, “without having to put towels under the door” to prevent the smell from leaking. One of the objectives of the initiative is open the debate on the medicinal uses of cannabis.

John Evangelista, a real estate investor who has known Peron since his San Francisco hippie days, bought the hotel in January and invited Peron to create a “pot-tel.” “He has a certain following, a certain know-how, a certain energy and kind of vision,” Evangelista said.

Richard Eastman, responsible for promoting the hotel said: “We have a motto now. Forget Amsterdam. Meet me at 6th and Normandie. You won't need a passport to come to the Normandie Hotel. You won't need a plane ticket to come to the Normandie Hotel. On the Metro, the bus, the taxis, we're centrally located in the middle of the center of the universe right here.”

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