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Vancouver's proposed $30000 fee for marijuana-related businesses deemed 'unfair'

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 04/22/2015 - 20:22

VANCOUVER -- Travis Williams works in the Cannabis Culture lounge on Davie Street, which does not sell weed but charges a $5 fee for people to bring in and smoke their own. A separate marijuana dispensary, run by Eden Medicinal Society, is located in the same building with a door that opens into the hazy lounge.

The businesses appear to violate two of the city’s proposed new regulations: that two marijuana-related business cannot operate within 300 metres of each other and that they cannot be located within 300 metres of a school.

Lord Roberts Elementary in the West End is just 180 metres from the two outfits on Davie.

But Williams said the lounge and dispensary, located on the second floor of the building, are out of sight from schoolchildren, and argued as medical marijuana becomes more mainstream it should be available in all neighbourhoods, not just commercial strips.

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