Today's GAMECHANGER by Health Canada. Death of Dispensaries?
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WHATFG
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I know sometimes my snotty sarcastic tone doesn't shine through, but I was being sarcastic...
gonna be a real fight...one that patients will win hands down.
Sorry RRrona
“If they think we’re just going to close down in two weeks and cut off all our patients, they really don’t understand where we’re coming from,” Ms. Shaw said. “We’ve always been willing to risk arrest.”
More power to them all!!!
Sorry RRrona
“If they think we’re just going to close down in two weeks and cut off all our patients, they really don’t understand where we’re coming from,” Ms. Shaw said. “We’ve always been willing to risk arrest.”
More power to them all!!!
Now Im reading the D's that got letters are advertising.... If they stop....maybe they wont be charged?? I dont know...read this..
As the federal government for the first time threatened police action against some B.C. marijuana dispensaries this week, pot’s prominence in the October federal election is only increasing, says a B.C. criminologist.
SFU professor Neil Boyd believes B.C.’s booming pot dispensary sector is currently competing with Health Canada’s “bizarre” medical marijuana regime and street dealers, in a confusing market roiled by political and legal crosswinds.
“If we get a Liberal or NDP government, we will get something more rational,” Boyd said.
“The medical-versus-recreational-usage debate needs to be thought through. What we have now is bizarre. You have a medical system that is mail-order delivery, and it doesn’t make any sense.”
Illegal pot dispensaries have exploded in Vancouver in the past five years under the banner — or in some cases the guise — of medical marijuana usage.
The proliferation is due to permissive attitudes adopted by Vancouver city hall and the police department, Boyd said.
The City of Vancouver basically formalized its pot position this summer by moving into dispensary regulation.
Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang says that such regulation is the city’s only concern, and it is up to the businesses themselves to decide on what terms to sell marijuana.
For months the federal government has vaguely warned Vancouver about straying into marijuana regulation, without outlining consequences.
But Health Canada officials confirmed Thursday that this week, for the first time, cease and desist orders were sent to some B.C. dispensaries, with threats of RCMP raids for non-compliance.
Thirteen pot stores that are illegally advertising weed sales have been warned that if advertisements are not pulled they could be raided, a Health Canada spokesman informed The Province in a statement.
While Health Canada regulates the permitted cultivation of medical marijuana and user access, in Vancouver dispensaries are self-regulating, issuing member permits with widely varied standards for medical approval.
A doctor’s note will let a customer obtain pot in some stores, a short consultation with an alternative medicinal professional such as a naturopath at others, and no documentation at all is needed in some cases. Reports have shown that permits can be interchanged between some pot stores.
Nick Whitehead, of the marijuana advocacy group Sensible B.C., said he believes a Conservative government would maintain its aggressive stance against B.C.’s pot dispensary sector.
Whitehead said that if the NDP, Liberal or Green parties take power in October, he believes the federal government will quickly move to decriminalize marijuana, and eventually move toward regulation and taxation of the drug.
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As the federal government for the first time threatened police action against some B.C. marijuana dispensaries this week, pot’s prominence in the October federal election is only increasing, says a B.C. criminologist.
SFU professor Neil Boyd believes B.C.’s booming pot dispensary sector is currently competing with Health Canada’s “bizarre” medical marijuana regime and street dealers, in a confusing market roiled by political and legal crosswinds.
“If we get a Liberal or NDP government, we will get something more rational,” Boyd said.
“The medical-versus-recreational-usage debate needs to be thought through. What we have now is bizarre. You have a medical system that is mail-order delivery, and it doesn’t make any sense.”
Illegal pot dispensaries have exploded in Vancouver in the past five years under the banner — or in some cases the guise — of medical marijuana usage.
The proliferation is due to permissive attitudes adopted by Vancouver city hall and the police department, Boyd said.
The City of Vancouver basically formalized its pot position this summer by moving into dispensary regulation.
Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang says that such regulation is the city’s only concern, and it is up to the businesses themselves to decide on what terms to sell marijuana.
For months the federal government has vaguely warned Vancouver about straying into marijuana regulation, without outlining consequences.
But Health Canada officials confirmed Thursday that this week, for the first time, cease and desist orders were sent to some B.C. dispensaries, with threats of RCMP raids for non-compliance.
Thirteen pot stores that are illegally advertising weed sales have been warned that if advertisements are not pulled they could be raided, a Health Canada spokesman informed The Province in a statement.
While Health Canada regulates the permitted cultivation of medical marijuana and user access, in Vancouver dispensaries are self-regulating, issuing member permits with widely varied standards for medical approval.
A doctor’s note will let a customer obtain pot in some stores, a short consultation with an alternative medicinal professional such as a naturopath at others, and no documentation at all is needed in some cases. Reports have shown that permits can be interchanged between some pot stores.
Nick Whitehead, of the marijuana advocacy group Sensible B.C., said he believes a Conservative government would maintain its aggressive stance against B.C.’s pot dispensary sector.
Whitehead said that if the NDP, Liberal or Green parties take power in October, he believes the federal government will quickly move to decriminalize marijuana, and eventually move toward regulation and taxation of the drug.
[email protected]
twitter.com/scoopercooper
c ray
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ricky1lung
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Exactly.
It was already in the news that they'd be cracking down on advertisers.
We'll see a few get shut down for unlawful activities to pander to the conservative base, but from now until after the election I believe most busts will be done quietly unless they nab some big fish they can display as a win.
WHATFG
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So the Feds will pit the RCMP against VPD...Tic toc...
realmeduser
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funny.
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