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Pot dispensary shops across Greater Victoria have long run grey-market businesses B次元官网网址� with confusing to little legislation surrounding them, and their courses of action come Oct. 17 are just as divided.
For some, business will continue as usual.
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Leaf Compassion will continue to stay open, and sell products, with the exception of cannabis concentrates such as hash and shatter, which they hope to bring out for a final sale on Oct. 18 before pulling it all from the shelves.
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Leaf is also organizing a celebratory party for Oct. 17, holding major sales and giving out free doobies and munchies starting at 4 p.m. at their 950 Yates St. location to people over 19, and then sending people down to Terp City Canna Lounge at 1412 Douglas St. to consume their products responsibly.
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On the other end of the spectrum, Medijuana dispensaries shuts down indefinitely after they close their doors tonight at 8 p.m.
Staff members at the Johnson Street Medijuana location said today they were having a blow-out sale, where everything was 60 per cent off and any compassion cannabis was down to $4 per gram, with no limit on weight purchases. They hope to reopen in the near future once their legal application has been processed, though once doors open again they will no longer carry any pot concentrates, and all dry herbs will have a maximum of 18 per cent THCB次元官网网址搕he psychoactive ingredient in marjijuanaB次元官网网址� while cannabis oil will have a maximum of 30 per cent THC.
Farm Dispensaries will also be shutting their doors after today as they await final approval, with sales continuing throughout the day.
For Trees Island Grown dispensary, there wonB次元官网网址檛 be much change aside from a big celebration happening at their downtown location at 546 Yates Street on Wednesday from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m.
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B次元官网网址淔or the most part weB次元官网网址檙e still gonna be doing our thing, our way . WeB次元官网网址檙e not gonna be doing any drastic changes come tomorrow, weB次元官网网址檙e still gonna offer the same product line and the same hours,B次元官网网址� said Tree associate Zack Podgorenko. B次元官网网址淲e already are licensed, and weB次元官网网址檝e started the new process for the new licensing, so it is looking like as long as that processing is underway we should be able to continue doing what weB次元官网网址檙e doing.B次元官网网址�
The Trees party will offer food, drinks and live music, as well as discounts instore.
Podgorenko also noted that while nothing official has been said about the membership process changing, he suspects after Oct. 17 that they will switch to an ID-based system only to see if people are 19 and over.
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