Victoria proposes rules for regulating illegal marijuana dispensaries
VICTORIA — The Globe and Mail
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A spokesman for a dispensing chain- Alex Robb who is located on Vancouver Island, stated that he wholeheartedly welcomes the new licensing regimes that were set up. Other proposed regulations include being prohibited from participating in the business if under the age of 19, health signs must be posted as well and no-one is permitted to consume marijuana in dispensaries. The Mayor of Victoria-Lisa Helps notes that she is still working to establish ground rules and is keeping in mind the fact that it may to years for the federal government to legalize marijuana. Helps also brought up the subject of how dispensaries are popping up much too quickly and that it is creating an unbalanced playing ground for other businesses. This could relate to the economical status of these suddenly occurring dispensaries for marijuana. Helps finally stated how the city will have an open house meeting on the 22 of February and she hopes to see the regulation set in as soon as possible. Last year Vancouver became the first city in Canada to regulate dispensaries however thirty thousand dollar fees will be given if it is used where it is not permitted. Helps said that she wanted the fees to be higher but the Victoria regulations fall under the same as B.C and Vancouver on the other hand has its own regulations set apart.
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Opinion:
My opinion on the whole topic of the legalization of marijuana is that I
still believe that it is not a good thing as it is a drug, not usually being
used for medicine, but the fact that there are much worse drugs out there
that make marijuana look like nothing. For example drinking is not illegal
but it could make you do some very bad things when you get
drunk, similarly to being high on marijuana. These effects are often
compared and in my opinion pot is no worse than alcohol. My thoughts on
the economic impact of the current situation is that, yes people will be more
attracted to the marijuana dispensary in the outlet than the dry cleaning store
right beside it. I can understand how the businesses feel in
Victoria and I see how this could be unfair since the other businesses could
be receiving less publicity. In my opinion the solution that
the government could come up with for this economic issue
is that the dispensaries can only be opened in certain remote areas. They
must be separated evenly from each other dispensary in the area
thus causing less eyes to turn in every outlet. The controversy
between how Victoria is regulating marijuana apart from the rest of Vancouver,
who has not yet done so interests me. I have noticed that many areas or regions
are starting to act more independent now a days from there
nation such as Quebec to Canada. This is a similar idea with what Victoria
is doing from the rest of its nation which is Vancouver, the Victoria municipal
government is taking an illegal drug (marijuana) and
is creating regulations for it which is a complete foreign subject to
the rest of Vancouver. In my opinion this is a good thing because when
cities such as Victoria begin major actions such as these, it gives a chance
for the rest of the province or even county to see how it works out. If the
situation works out well, then maybe other cities or even provinces in
Canada could begin to create regulations, and it could row from there
at a slow, measurable pace that is safe. Overall, from a civics
point of view, I believe that pot could have some regulation and be sold
at dispensaries non-illegally, but to an extent. If
the guidelines given by the government of Victoria are
followed, in my personal opinion, I feel
mediated dispensaries could work and spread all over Canada.
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