Pubdate: Thu, 16 Jul 2015
Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB)
Copyright: 2015 Winnipeg Free Press
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Author: Carol Sanders
Page: A8

OWNER ORDERED TO STOP SELLING POT

WINNIPEG police have told the man running a medical marijuana 
dispensary from a store on Main Street to stop selling cannabis.

Nearly two weeks after Your Medical Cannabis Headquarters began 
selling medical marijuana at 1404 Main St., a group fighting 
storefront sales of pot claimed victory Wednesday when police told 
the store owner to stop.

"We said shut them down - it's illegal," Pamela McColl with Smart 
Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) Canada said Wednesday night.

"They're trafficking in narcotics," said McColl from her home in 
Vancouver. She said she contacted the Winnipeg mayor's office and the 
police service Tuesday to file a service complaint the police weren't 
upholding the law by allowing the storefront sale of medical marijuana.

Owner Glenn Price, a medical marijuana user himself, said he did stop 
selling cannabis at the request of the police. That was Tuesday. 
"Today I didn't sell any, but I gave some product away," he said 
Wednesday night.

Price said Mayor Brian Bowman responded to an email he sent him when 
Bowman was first elected, wishing him well and wanting to meet to 
discuss the role of his dispensary in the city. Now he's hoping 
Bowman will be able to meet with him today.

While Price doesn't have a licence to dispense medical marijuana, his 
shop is connected to a doctor who writes prescriptions, has equipment 
to test the potency of the cannabis and issues photo ID cards for 
every customer, he said. Every customer is over the age of 24 and 
most are 45 years of age and older, said Price.
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