Pot may be legal across the country now, but donB次元官网网址檛 expect to be lighting up at your leisure in the Parksville.
Parksville city council plans to to take advantage of provincial legislation allowing it to ban smoking or vaping recreational cannabis in public places.
At a Nov. 19 council meeting, city administrative services and corporate officer Keeva Kehler asked council to provide staff direction on whether or not to enact a ban on smoking cannabis in public places.
Kehler said the previous council directed staff to enact the ban, but that she wanted to check with the province first to make sure they had the authority to do so.
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Coun. Adam Fras questioned whether a business could come forward and ask to open a cafe where they could permit smoking cannabis.
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