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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Maple Ridge tells Ottawa it wants a say locating medical marijuana ops 🌿Maple Ridge tells Ottawa it wants a say locating medical marijuana ops
Cities and the people who live within them, should be able to have a say in where medical marijuana operations set up within their boundaries, says the mayor of Maple Ridge.
"It should be a formal requirement that Health Canada make the location of these potential sites known to the public and hold a public meeting and consider the comments of our citizens in determining if such a facility should be considered for licensing in our city," Nicole Read said in a release Friday.
The mayor wrote to federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose pointing out there's no formal public process relating to locations of medical marijuana facilities in Maple Ridge.
Maple Ridge is currently dealing with community opposition to a medical marijuana plant being built in Whonnock on 272nd Street over protests of the neighbours.
"The situation in Whonnock highlights the issues around the failures in the current Health Canada...
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