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In late September, the provincial government of British Columbia announced a five-week public consultation period on the framework for legal, adult-use cannabis.
At that time, Vancouver City Councillor Kerry Jang offered an olive branch of hope for privately-owned dispensaries in the region by stating:
“It was not long ago there was a government monopoly on beer and craft beer was illegal. Now what do we see? We see a huge market for craft beer. We see responsible usage. We see breweries, brewpubs that didn’t exist before. Why not marijuana?”
The end of the consultation period is approaching and there has yet to be any indication of how Canada’s most pot-friendly province intends to sell legal marijuana in July 2018.
“I haven’t heard anything other than they have launched a consultation process,” said Lisa Helps, Mayor of Victoria, in an interview with Marijuana.com.
Helps has been a supporter of privately-owned, government-regulated dispensaries in her region, which happens to be the capital of British Columbia. “We have asked our staff to bring forward some recommendations to council, to give our input that way.”
Although Helps wouldn’t…
