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Canada: Toronto in a haze over medical marijuana dispensaries

David Rider

The Toronto Star

Tuesday 03 May 2016


Toronto lawmakers watching medical marijuana shops pop up “like crocuses in spring” are hoping for signals from Ottawa on how to deal with the onslaught.

“We need a sign from the federal government — are they going to change the rules around medical marijuana? Should we as council be trying to close these clinics altogether or make new rules around where they can go, how close they can be to each other?” asked Councillor Paula Fletcher.

“We’ve been caught by surprise by the proliferation of these shops. People don’t like to wake up and find they live in one big marijuana dispensary and I don’t blame them.”

Star reporters last week visited dispensaries where clients are required to show a prescription and others where a conversation with a “health professional” is enough to walk out with a bag of pot.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s vow to legalize recreational use has left a haze around Health Canada rules, as has a court decision on patients growing their own plants. The rules say only federally-licensed producers can distribute pot, by delivery, to prescription-holding patients.

Toronto’s licensing department told the Star it is laying groundwork for a future crackdown. A city rule states pot dispensaries must be federally licensed and located only in areas zoned industrial.

Fletcher, who says a half-dozen dispensaries are now located around a subway station in her Riverdale ward, is wary of marshalling city staff, police and courts in an enforcement blitz that might be made moot by legalization.

“There’s a better, compassionate way” to dispense medical pot than Health Canada’s much-criticized system, said Fletcher.

https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2016/05/03/toronto-in-a-haze-over-medical-marijuana-dispensaries.html

 

 

 

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