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It's not easy living above a clash of ideologies.
But that's where residents of Maxine Clough's Vancouver condo building find themselves: stuck between Ottawa's virulent opposition to marijuana and cannabis activists bent on legalization.
Meanwhile, the very real pot dispensary on their ground floor is open for business.
"We're in the middle," says Clough, who supports calls to regulate Vancouver's rapidly multiplying dispensaries.
"We're stuck here, and the city seems to be trying to do something. And we've got the feds saying: 'Don't you dare!'"
'Marijuana is not a medicine'
Later this month, Vancouver will hold public hearings on proposed new rules, which would move the more than 90-and-counting dispensaries away from schools, community centres and each other.
The city argues $35,000 in combined annual licensing fees, together with criminal record checks and strict regulation, would keep medical marijuana out of the hands of the young and vulnerable.
Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose disagrees....
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