UPDATED: Toronto city councillors pushing for one-year moratorium on new cannabis retail outlets
Meg Marshall, community manager for the Queen Street West BIA, told CP24 that businesses along the busy retail strip have grown worried about the lack of regulations.
“Maybe some of the current shops that have opened up may not have opened up if they knew that there were so many near them and that the competition was potentially going to be so fierce,” Marshall said. She stressed that the neighbourhood is not against cannabis shops themselves, but wants to see better planning around them.
Coun. Kristyn Wong-Tam and Coun. Paula Fletcher will table a motion at city council this week requesting that the Ford government pause the issuing of new licensees for one year or until a private members bill which would give municipalities more say over the location of pot shops is passed.“There's a lot of cannabis stores but the problem is they're clustered in certain areas.
That, Fletcher said, has led to a bit of a “wild wild west” environment where some main streets are being increasingly taken over by cannabis retailers.
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