Liberal MLA Jas Johal is calling for pot enforcement now, after several small black packages with “microdosed candy” were placed on the windshields of cars parked outside a Vancouver marijuana conference over the weekend.
“It’s time to start enforcing,” said Johal, the MLA for Richmond-Queensborough. “Clearly some of these companies feel emboldened and have gone as far as marketing these products by putting them on windshields. They need to be reminded that this is not acceptable, that this is a public hazard. It’s an issue of public safety at the end of the day and it concerns me deeply.”
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Vancouver lawyer Kyla Lee said that whoever did distribute the packages had broken federal laws.
“This was a big mistake by someone,” Lee said.
While it has been legal for the authorized sale of dried cannabis in Canada since Oct. 17, 2018, it’s illegal to market and distribute edible cannabis. Lee said the federal government is seeking public input on plans to legalize the sale of edible cannabis and it’s expected to become law in the fall.
“You can’t sell (edible cannabis) and you can’t put it under windshield wipers because you don’t know who it might end up in the hands of,” Lee said. “Just because a car is parked at that location, you don’t know the driver isn’t 16.”
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