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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Health minister appeals to council to vote down resolution to regulate 'illegal storefronts' 🌿Health minister appeals to council to vote down resolution to regulate 'illegal storefronts'
Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose has reiterated her concern over the City of Vancouver's proposal to regulate retail marijuana stores, calling on the mayor to instead close the operators down.
"Storefront dispensaries are not part of the Health Canada regime in any way," Ambrose said Friday. "What they are is commercial entities selling pot on street corners.
"My appeal to the mayor is to think twice about this, and to vote against his proposal on Tuesday, and instead to close down these dispensaries."
Ambrose said her concern was based on research into the effects of marijuana on developing brains, which she said made an "irrefutable" link between usage in young people and serious effects such as psychosis and schizophrenia.
"Don't do it. Don't pass the resolution," she urged council.
'Missing the point'
In a letter to Mayor Gregor Robertson Thursday, Ambrose wrote that "legitimizing and normalizing...
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