Indopedia All Things Marijuana
Canada’s highly anticipated and largely unprecedented move to legalize recreational marijuana countrywide is coming quick, and the country’s cannabis businesses are doing their best to gear up for the monumental shift. In Toronto, proprietors of the city’s long-standing unregulated cannabis lounges are trying to get their piece of the newly regulated pie.
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Cannabis Friendly Business Association is planning to submit a request to Toronto’s Municipal Licensing and Standards Committee to hopefully take the on-site consumption lounges mainstream.
Arguing that tourists, renters and parents would have no place to legally consume their newly regulated cannabis under the new laws, business owners say that their lounges create safe spaces for marijuana use, and should be licensed like the rest of the country’s impending canna-businesses.
“You also have to think of parents with children or those living with elderly people or people with respiratory problems or tourists.” Abi Roach, owner of the Roach-O-Rama and Hotbox Café, said. Where are tourists going to smoke cannabis? In their non-smoking hotel rooms?”
