Marijuana sales: Washington state versus British Columbia
Pot shops: Washington state versus B.C.
One year after Washington state legalized the sale of marijuana, B.C. remains bound by Canadian drug laws that consider pot sales, except to about 40,000 authorized medical users, illegal.
This status quo is being challenged, not just by marijuana activists, but also by municipalities, which are grappling with ways to handle consequences of pot prohibition, including illegal grow-ops, gang violence and organized crime.
In some of B.C.’s biggest cities, marijuana dispensaries increasingly dot the landscape. Their rapid growth — about 135 at last count in the province — has been partly attributed to the federal government’s move in 2013 to ban homegrown medical marijuana in favour of a handful of licensed industrial-scale producers.
In June, Vancouver became the first municipality in Canada to regulate dispensaries in open defiance of Ottawa. City Coun. Kerry Jang described the move as a “common-sense approach” to deal with...
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