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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 BC's local governments vote for power over pot shops 🌿BC's local governments vote for power over pot shops
VANCOUVER -- Local governments in British Columbia have declared they have the authority to licence medical marijuana dispensaries, defying the federal government's opposition to regulation of the illegal stores.
Delegates at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention voted in favour of a resolution endorsing the position that they have the power to regulate pot dispensaries.
The resolution states that an ongoing court challenge of Ottawa's medical marijuana laws has created uncertainty while pot shops proliferate and cause problems in B.C.
Vancouver Coun. Heather Deal said the vote sends a strong message to the federal government, which has not provided reasonable legal access to medical marijuana despite court rulings requiring them to do so.
"We have to do it because they're not doing their job. They are continuing to be at odds with the federal courts," she said after the vote.
"That leaves cities in the untenable position of not being...
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