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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Canada: Ontario government to clamp down on vaping and medical marijuana 🌿Canada: Ontario government to clamp down on vaping and medical marijuana
In a major policy U-turn, Queen’s Park will ban the smoking and vaping of medicinal pot in all enclosed public places, workplaces, and many outdoor areas as well as curb the use and sale of e-cigarettes.
Associate health minister Dipika Damerla is expected to outline the changes on Thursday.
Sources said the potentially controversial anti-toking and anti-vaping measures were approved by Premier Kathleen Wynne’s cabinet on Wednesday afternoon.
The moves are “to strengthen . . . smoking laws to better protect people from second-smoke, whether from a tobacco product or medical marijuana,” an official said.
While a ban on selling e-cigarettes to anyone under the age of 19 took effect on Jan. 1, the regulations limiting where adults could vape were in limbo.
That’s because the government had to go back to the drawing board after new rules came out last November that would have allowed people to smoke...
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