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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Ottawa threatens to bypass VPD and send in RCMP to bust Vancouver marijuana dispensaries 🌿Ottawa threatens to bypass VPD and send in RCMP to bust Vancouver marijuana dispensaries
The Vancouver Police Department is playing it cool in response to the suggestion the RCMP could be on its way into the City of Vancouver to shut down marijuana dispensaries.
"We have a great working relationship with the RCMP,” VPD Const. Brian Montague told the Straight. “I'll let them [RCMP] respond to any insinuation that they are going to come into Vancouver.”
The spokesperson for the force made those remarks in response to the distribution of letters sent from Health Canada to a number of Vancouver marijuana dispensaries. In those documents, Ottawa threatens to send RCMP officers into the City of Vancouver.
“If the [named dispensary redacted] does not immediately cease all activities with controlled substances, we will contact, within 30 days of the date of this letter, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for enforcement action as they deem necessary,” reads a copy of the letter posted online at LiftCannabis.ca.
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