VICTORIA -- Seniors in Victoria, B.C. support council's push to adopt a bylaw that allows edible pot products in medical marijuana dispensaries, despite health and safety concerns raised by the province's medical health officer, says Mayor Lisa Helps.
Victoria's council voted in favour of preparing a medical marijuana business bylaw Thursday that permits the sale of edible pot products, keeps marijuana businesses 200 metres apart from each other and prohibits any forms of advertising.
The bylaw will also keep the dispensaries 200 metres away from schools and licensed daycares.
Helps and other council members said the many seniors who spoke at public meetings in favour of edible pot sales convinced them to buck Vancouver's pot law, which prohibits the sale of edible products such as brownies and cookies.
"Our staff and council were was compelled," said Helps.
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