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Vancouver’s police chief says the VPD has better things to do than clamp down on the city’s marijuana dispensaries.
He made those comments Friday following the furor over Health Canada sending “cease and desist letters” to several pot shops.
Chief Constable Adam Palmer says the VPD has acted on 11 search warrants between 2014 and August 2015, and would only act on those dispensaries suspected of selling to youth, or connected with a criminal enterprise.
“We will continue to do search warrants on those, but I’m not retooling all 13,00 officers to be going after marijuana dispensaries, there’s much more important work to do,” Palmer says.
Palmer says as far as the VPD’s response to marijuana dispensaries goes they “just aren’t a priority.”
Palmer also says the RCMP won’t be shutting down dispensaries in Vancouver either.
“You’re not going to see the RCMP walking into Vancouver and dealing with something,” he says....
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