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The Vancouver Police Department's new Chief Constable Adam Palmer agrees with federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose that the city's flourishing marijuana dispensaries are breaking the law — but he isn't planning a crackdown.
"They are illegal, so the minister is correct, there's no issue there," said Palmer Monday.
Last week, after Vancouver city council passed a groundbreaking bylaw to regulate and license the city's roughly 100 pot dispensaries, Ambrose issued a strongly-worded statement that she was "deeply disappointed."
"We expect the police to enforce the law," she wrote.
Vancouver's roughly 100 marijuana shops will now have to pay a $30,000 licensing fee and be subject to restrictions on their locations. (CBC)
Palmer agrees that's his job, but told CBC's Stephen Quinn on The Early Edition that he has to consider all the crime in the city — from petty theft to serial sex offenders — and decide what to...
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