Court Upholds City Pot Ban

Municipalities may effectively ban the sale of marijuana with bylaws, the British Columbia Supreme Court has ruled. The decision, the first of its kind, upheld a 2017 West Kelowna bylaw that made it difficult for cannabis stores to get a license: ‘Criminal law may be one thing, but municipal law is another.’

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