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Lower Mainland municipalities want the support of other Canadian jurisdictions as they push for a national debate on the regulation of marijuana dispensaries.
The B.C. communities are submitting a resolution for discussion at next month’s Federation of Canadian Municipalities convention. The document, a copy of which was obtained by The Globe and Mail, says local governments have the authority to regulate marijuana dispensaries.
The resolution was endorsed by a coalition of 33 local governments from the Lower Mainland last week and will be forwarded to the FCM and the Union of B.C. Municipalities for consideration at their 2015 conventions.
Vancouver has been in the spotlight over controversial efforts to manage dispensaries, but an executive with the coalition said questions about the issue are rising in a number of smaller communities including North Vancouver, Port Moody and Squamish.
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