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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Vancouver police board dismisses complaint about pot-shop enforcement 🌿Vancouver police board dismisses complaint about pot-shop enforcement
VANCOUVER – Vancouver’s police board has unanimously rejected a prominent advocate’s complaint that the city’s police department was failing to enforce the law against marijuana dispensaries.
Pamela McColl of the group Smart Approaches to Marijuana Canada had accused the department of not doing its duty “to maintain law and order” by not shutting down all pot shops in the city.
But deputy chief Doug LePard delivered a report to the board Thursday that stated criminal laws are less effective than municipal bylaws at closing illegal businesses.
The VPD must respect the City of Vancouver’s decision not to use its bylaw powers to shut down dispensaries and instead create a regulatory framework, he said.
“We don’t operate in a vacuum. We have to consider the circumstances that we operate in,” LePard told the board.
“We have the greatest of respect for policy decisions that the democratically elected council has decided on,...
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