VIANARCHRIS
Well-Known Member
I wonder if the fine folk of Abbotsford are going to enjoy paying the legal bills for the impending lawsuits. Medical grows for licensed patients are banned from the city...clearly discrimination as there is no such bylaw to limit or ban any other legal activity based on personal bias. How will this law hold up when rec is legalized? I foresee a massive change in local government come election time....or a sharp increase in property tax to pay legal bills.
The owner of one of B.C.’s largest marijuana-dispensary chains says he plans to fight a court injunction against his Abbotsford store.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Paul Walker granted a petition by the City of Abbotsford on Monday and ordered Weeds Glass & Gifts on 103-2451 Clearbrook Rd., which started operating last summer, to stop selling cannabis and cannabis products by Friday.
Owner Don Briere remains defiant.
“We plan to appeal this, and continue fighting this,” he said. “There are many people who don’t want to wait until the laws are changed.”
Briere, a marijuana activist and entrepreneur who has been called the “Tim Hortons of cannabis,” operates 19 stores in B.C. and has plans to expand to Eastern Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to legalize and regulate marijuana during the last election campaign, noted Briere.
“That means the war is over. Why is Abbotsford still fighting the war?”
According to the petition filed by the city last October, Briere had applied for a licence to operate the Clearbrook store, but was turned down because city bylaws ban the growing, storage and sale of marijuana in Abbotsford.
Briere then argued the dispensary operated as part of a non-profit society and was exempt from a business licence. The store continued to operate, despite city orders.
In a statement Monday, Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun said he expects the store’s operator to abide by the court’s ruling.
“This business was operating without a valid business licence and we are pleased that the judge has seen fit to uphold our bylaws,” said Braun.
The owner of one of B.C.’s largest marijuana-dispensary chains says he plans to fight a court injunction against his Abbotsford store.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Paul Walker granted a petition by the City of Abbotsford on Monday and ordered Weeds Glass & Gifts on 103-2451 Clearbrook Rd., which started operating last summer, to stop selling cannabis and cannabis products by Friday.
Owner Don Briere remains defiant.
“We plan to appeal this, and continue fighting this,” he said. “There are many people who don’t want to wait until the laws are changed.”
Briere, a marijuana activist and entrepreneur who has been called the “Tim Hortons of cannabis,” operates 19 stores in B.C. and has plans to expand to Eastern Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to legalize and regulate marijuana during the last election campaign, noted Briere.
“That means the war is over. Why is Abbotsford still fighting the war?”
According to the petition filed by the city last October, Briere had applied for a licence to operate the Clearbrook store, but was turned down because city bylaws ban the growing, storage and sale of marijuana in Abbotsford.
Briere then argued the dispensary operated as part of a non-profit society and was exempt from a business licence. The store continued to operate, despite city orders.
In a statement Monday, Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun said he expects the store’s operator to abide by the court’s ruling.
“This business was operating without a valid business licence and we are pleased that the judge has seen fit to uphold our bylaws,” said Braun.
