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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Vancouver councillor predicts 80 marijuana dispensaries will be forced to close 🌿Vancouver councillor predicts 80 marijuana dispensaries will be forced to close
When marijuana dispensaries started popping up with greater frequency around Vancouver a few years ago, some sections of the city began to resemble Amsterdam. On Broadway, West 4th Avenue, and Granville Street, for example, three or more storefronts have established themselves on single blocks.
One of the goals of a regulatory process the city initiated in April 2015 was to address those clusters and thin out any concentration of pot shops. Among many new rules officially adopted in June 2015 is a provision that states no two storefronts should stand within 300 metres of one another.
But a plan then city manager Penny Ballem presented to council on April 28 wasn’t expected to reduce the total number of dispensaries, which now stands at more than 90.
According to a PowerPoint slide from Ballem’s presentation, as many as 60 or 70 existing dispensary locations would have to close...
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