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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Federal pot legalization process needs to involve Toronto: councillor 🌿Federal pot legalization process needs to involve Toronto: councillor
As Liberal government looks to undertake the legalization process, a local councillor wants Toronto's voice on the table
Coun. Jim Karygiannis worries the proposed legalization of marijuana could lead to pot shops “growing like weeds” in Toronto neighbourhoods.
So, when newly-minted MP – and former Toronto police chief – Bill Blair and the rest of the Liberal government decide how to regulate the drug, the Karygiannis wants Toronto to have a seat at the table.
The Ward 39 councillor will be moving a motion at city council asking for a municipal representative on the federal task force in charge of Canada’s new pot laws.
“We want to have a input right from the foundation,” he said, adding he’s heard reports of several unlicensed pot dispensaries across the city, and is concerned they could become legal and operational in inappropriate places.
“I would want to make sure that they are not close...
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