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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Public airs views at hearing over medical marijuana dispensaries in Vancouver 🌿Public airs views at hearing over medical marijuana dispensaries in Vancouver
VANCOUVER — A public hearing on Vancouver’s proposal to regulate pot shops is heating up with more than 150 people set to speak.
Pot-legalization advocates, dispensary owners and patients crammed city hall on Wednesday evening as the hearing began.
City manager Penny Ballem says the number of authorized medical marijuana users in British Columbia accounts for nearly half of all those in Canada.
The city is proposing new regulations to control the rapid growth of illegal pot shops, which have multiplied from fewer than 20 to 94 over the past three years.
The regulations would include a new business licence category, a $30,000 fee and a requirement that stores be 300 metres away from schools, community centres and other pot shops.
Ballem says the city hopes to reduce youth exposure and serious crime and is now considering allowing up to five licences per owner rather than just one.
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