City of Victoria drafting new marijuana bylaws
VICTORIA – Victoria has become the latest British Columbia city to draft new bylaws for medical marijuana dispensaries, as Vancouver considers a plan to regulate illegal pot shops.
City council in the province’s capital voted Thursday to ask staff to draft business licensing and zoning regulations, which could impose fees and new rules on security, record keeping and selling to minors.
Mayor Lisa Helps said she thought it was a “good sign” when Victoria Police Insp. Scott McGregor told council at the meeting that the department doesn’t object to regulation.
“We have a very effective and dedicated police force who are (focused on) organized crime and hard drugs,” she said. “They don’t have time and energy to be running around busting 18-year-olds selling marijuana across the counter.”
Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose has called on Vancouver to halt its plan to regulate pot shops. In letters to the city, she...
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