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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Update: Vancouver city council ignores Ottawa's warning and sends rules for marijuana sales 🌿Update: Vancouver city council ignores Ottawa's warning and sends rules for marijuana sales
Citizens will soon get to have a say on how Vancouver should regulate the storefront sale of medicinal marijuana.
City council ignored a warning from Health Canada and voted to send a proposed legal framework for cannabis-related businesses to a public hearing.
When the new rules are eventually voted into law—an outcome that’s all but certain given councillors from all three civic parties have already spoken in their favour—Vancouver will become the first municipality in Canada to permit and regulate the over-the-counter sale of marijuana.
Speaking before council, city manager Penny Ballem stressed a municipal government has no jurisdiction over a drug’s legality. She emphasized the city’s new rules are only intended to regulate the businesses side of dispensaries, of which there are already more than 80 operating in Vancouver.
"We need to bring this into the best framework possible under the circumstances,” Ballem said.
The proposed framework would create...
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