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Marijuana/cannabis businesses/dispensaries in Victoria and the south Island


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#3221 On the Level

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Posted 23 February 2017 - 12:14 PM

Any criminal undertaking will not agree to shut it's doors.

A chop shop, brothel, dog fight pit or whatever, there are no regulations stating how you should be taxed, and there are no clear business license options. Under the new precedent, you just pay your fine and reopen your business.

Question for the CoV council, how many meters do you need to be away from a high school to pimp?

#3222 Nparker

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Posted 23 February 2017 - 12:17 PM

...Under the new precedent, you just pay your fine and reopen your business...

Or, in the CoV, get levied a fine, refuse to pay it AND keep your business open*

 

* as long as you supply "medicinal" products to Council members for free



#3223 sdwright.vic

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Posted 23 February 2017 - 12:25 PM

Trust me.. they are supposed to be paying taxes.
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#3224 Nparker

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Posted 23 February 2017 - 12:27 PM

Trust me.. they are supposed to be paying taxes.

I know you cannot comment officially, but hypothetically will CRA go after such businesses for non-payment of taxes?



#3225 sdwright.vic

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Posted 23 February 2017 - 12:47 PM

They already do. Hypothetically there us an entire underground economy diversion. I posted on their Facebook page a CBC article that showed the court ruling that they must collect and pay GST. They politely blew me off.
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#3226 Nparker

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Posted 23 February 2017 - 01:24 PM

I am surprised they were polite, so few criminals are.



#3227 spanky123

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Posted 25 February 2017 - 10:05 AM

So finally we have a BC Supreme Court ruling that states that municipalities can shut down illegal grow ops. As we all know, this has been the reason that Mayor Helps cites for not being able to act.

 

Any bets as to whether she knows admits her mistake and stops telling the police to ignore them?

 

https://beta.theglob...article34064359


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#3228 sdwright.vic

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Posted 25 February 2017 - 10:10 AM

^Or she is going to have to admit she supports them.
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#3229 Nparker

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Posted 25 February 2017 - 10:27 AM

^Or she is going to have to admit she supports them.

And perhaps even personally profits from them... :o



#3230 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 26 February 2017 - 08:11 AM

http://www.timescolo...says-1.10444730

 

Laurie was speaking on behalf of Dominic Truong, who wants to open a dispensary called Pure Releaf at 510-512 Yates St.

 

His application for rezoning and licensing was deferred because another dispensary — Trees, already operating at 546 Yates St. — is located in the same block and applied for licensing first.

 

Under city policy, dispensaries are not to be located within 200 metres of each other.

 

Truong filed his application about a month after the Trees application was filed, Laurie said.

 

“Quick and easy solutions such as a first-come, first-served policy might work if you’re giving away a puppy, but I think the regulation of dispensaries is certainly more complicated than that,” he said.

 

 

- See more at: http://www.timescolo...h.aYvoJGuA.dpuf


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#3231 Nparker

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Posted 26 February 2017 - 12:42 PM

 

“Quick and easy solutions such as a first-come, first-served policy might work if you’re giving away a puppy, but I think the regulation of dispensaries is certainly more complicated than that,” he said.

Agreed, it is complicated; there is so little on the books about how to regulate illegal businesses, you'd almost think they shouldn't to exist at all.


Edited by Nparker, 26 February 2017 - 05:28 PM.

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#3232 spanky123

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Posted 26 February 2017 - 05:10 PM

I know you cannot comment officially, but hypothetically will CRA go after such businesses for non-payment of taxes?

 

I would think that posting on your facebook page that you are not going to collect taxes might motivate someone to complain to the CRA and the CRA to do something about it :-)


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#3233 sdwright.vic

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Posted 26 February 2017 - 06:10 PM

Hypothetically... yes.
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#3234 Nparker

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Posted 27 February 2017 - 11:46 AM

Sometimes marijuana does kill

 

The mother of twin toddler boys who died in a western New York house fire while she left them alone to buy marijuana has pleaded guilty in connection to their deaths... 

- See more at: http://www.timescolo...h.qSiVtoOk.dpuf



#3235 spanky123

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Posted 27 February 2017 - 12:27 PM

http://www.theglobea...rticle34144902/

 

Yet another reason why the feds won't be legalizing pot any time soon.


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#3236 Nparker

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Posted 27 February 2017 - 12:31 PM

...Yet another reason why the feds won't be legalizing pot any time soon.

Yet the CoV will continue to enable/license illegal businesses selling untested and potentially harmful "medicine". 



#3237 dasmo

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Posted 27 February 2017 - 12:41 PM

Sometimes marijuana does kill

It was the alcohol, not the pot....

#3238 Jenn P

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Posted 27 February 2017 - 01:06 PM

Yet the CoV will continue to enable/license illegal businesses selling untested and potentially harmful "medicine".


Of course. And given that we have 40 "medicinal" outlets or so, why hasn't this been declared a public health emergency?
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#3239 Jenn P

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Posted 27 February 2017 - 01:06 PM

Yet the CoV will continue to enable/license illegal businesses selling untested and potentially harmful "medicine".


Of course. And given that we have 40 "medicinal" outlets or so, why hasn't this been declared a public health emergency?

#3240 Jenn P

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Posted 02 March 2017 - 01:45 PM

PM in town today, reportedly reiteratimg that "dispensaries" are - surprise surprise - illegal.

Crazy suggestion but maybe VicPD might want to consider enforcing the law?
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