Oregon CBD Beverage Company Ablis Is Opening a Lounge in Downtown Portland

What's being billed as "the World's First CBD Func-Tail Lounge" is coming to downtown's Pine Street Market.

Ablis Experience, the first Portland outpost of Bend-based Ablis, features a menu built around CBD drinks, served from the kiosk formerly occupied by Olympia Provisions.

CEO Jim Bendis calls the drinks "func-tails," because in addition to the non-intoxicating cannabis compound, the concoctions are laced with "functional ingredients" that read like the inventory of an herbal apothecary—components like vitamin C, Hawthorn berry and beet powder. The func-tails can be prepared one of three ways: hot, cold, or "dirty"—the latter is dosed with a shot of double espresso.

*Reported by Willamette Week