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As the federal government for the first time threatened police action against some B.C. marijuana dispensaries this week, pot’s prominence in the October federal election is only increasing, says a B.C. criminologist.
SFU professor Neil Boyd believes B.C.’s booming pot dispensary sector is currently competing with Health Canada’s “bizarre” medical marijuana regime and street dealers, in a confusing market roiled by political and legal crosswinds.
“If we get a Liberal or NDP government, we will get something more rational,” Boyd said.
“The medical-versus-recreational-usage debate needs to be thought through. What we have now is bizarre. You have a medical system that is mail-order delivery, and it doesn’t make any sense.”
Illegal pot dispensaries have exploded in Vancouver in the past five years under the banner — or in some cases the guise — of medical marijuana usage.
The proliferation is due to permissive attitudes adopted by Vancouver city hall and...
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