Shops will likely be ‘drab, boring, uninteresting,’ says UBC adjunct professor Mark Haden. British Columbia could become a testing ground for legal recreational marijuana sales in Canada, if UBC adjunct professor Mark Haden has his way.
Legal sales of recreational marijuana started in Washington state this week, but B.C. says it won’t consider it. That’s because, in Canada, non-medical marijuana is illegal under the federal Criminal Code. Haden says B.C. could ask for an exemption like the one made for Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection site.
“The province could ask for a Section 56 exemption … as a way of experimenting,” Haden told Rick Cluff on CBC Radio’s The Early Edition.
“Public health is guided by evidence. And if you want to gather evidence, then what you need to do is demonstrate what you can do.”
Charlie Cho – CBC News – Jul 10, 2014.
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