The Studio Lounge sits on the second floor of The Artist Tree, a WeHo dispensary and art gallery on Santa Monica Boulevard, and for a while it held the title of Los Angeles’s only licensed cannabis consumption lounge. It’s an open-air, design-forward room — art on the walls, a patio overlooking the boulevard, and staff who take your order tableside like a proper bar.
What sets it apart from a straight smoke lounge is the programming. This is a stage as much as a lounge: drag brunch, comedy nights, DJ sets, burlesque, yoga, and puff-and-paint classes rotate through the calendar, and the crowd leans social and celebratory. You buy from a deep bench of onsite-consumption retail — flower, prerolls, vapes, edibles, and a rotating list of infused cocktails — and a full food menu is express-delivered from neighboring Kitchen24, so nobody’s leaving hungry.
A few practical notes: the lounge keeps a short week, open Thursday through Sunday only, and there’s a card-payment surcharge to expect. Where Barbary Coast is a dim, historic dab room and Moe Greens is a big social hall, The Studio Lounge is the entertainment venue of the CA set — come for the show, stay for the sesh.