When the staff of the Worshipful Company of Drapers came back to work in January after the Christmas break, something was different at their grand building in the City of London. The bar on the ground floor absolutely reeked of cannabis. “The smell was overpowering,” Drapers Company Clerk Richard Winstanley told Bisnow. “We knew something was going on, this wasn’t just someone having a quick joint.” 
The City of London police were called by staff of the company and when they raided the bar at 27b Throgmorton Street on 14 January, they found an unusual sign of the post-pandemic times. In the basement of the 19th-century building in the heart of London’s gleaming financial district, a…  Read the full story here. | 
