The team that will inform how B.C. regulates the sale and possession of recreational marijuana is scheduled to come together and meet for its first time this week, on Friday (October 20).
“The purpose of the committee is to provide a forum for communication and consultation so that the province considers local government input during the development of the regulatory framework for legalized non-medical cannabis,” reads an October 19 media release.
Called the Joint Provincial-Local Government Committee on Cannabis Regulation, is made of provincial representatives appointed by the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General plus 12 local politicians and bureaucrats drawn from the Union of B.C. Municipalities.
B.C. minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth is quoted in today’s media release emphasizing that the province government plans to take local officials’ views into account
Georgia Straight – Travis Lupick – October 19, 2017.
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