Can the Government Keep up With Changing Cannabis Laws?

The times are changing: will the government be able to keep up?

Cities coast to coast are seeing cannabis vapour lounges, dispensaries, and advocacy agencies entering the market, some operating in a legal grey zone.

A result of slowly changing cannabis laws, combined with a less-than-meaningful enforcement regime, have to come to suggested these new entrepreneurial activities have received less than tacit approval.

“I opened in 2000; it’s a 15 year old clientele,” said Abi Roach who owns HotBox Cafe in Toronto, the longest operating vapour lounge in North America. “The laws are changing finally, I feel pretty good, like everything we fought and worked for … is now coming to fruition.”

Her business is legit and legal in every sense: she pays taxes, has a business license and even sits on neighbourhood and community boards.

“The number one question is ‘do you sell weed’? and the number two question...

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