Club founder and executive director Ted Smith said in an interview the club “doesn’t have anything like” the $3.2 million to pay the fine.
The founder of the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club says the organization plans to challenge a $3.2-million fine from B.C.’s Community Safety Unit for selling cannabis without a licence.
Safety unit officers visited the store in November of that year, and again in July 2020, and seized cannabis each time. Smith and the club had the option of admitting the club had contravened the act and signing a waiver that would have reduced the fines to $1.6 million each, but declined to do so. After that hearing, however, Meghan Oberg, deputy director of the safety unit, determined that the club had sold cannabis in contravention of the act, and was operating an active and substantial illegal cannabis retail store.
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