Yukon presents draft plan for regulating legal marijuana
From cbc.ca 2018-01-11
Yukoners shouldn't expect to be sparking up a joint anywhere in public this summer, even after cannabis becomes legal. The Yukon government wants them to keep the weed at home.
The government on Thursday offered more details about how marijuana will be legally sold and regulated in the territory, starting later this year. Officials presented a summary of its draft Cannabis Control and Regulation Act, to be tabled in the Legislature later this winter.
It follows a framework document presented in November, that laid out some basic rules about how and where pot can be sold, grown or consumed, and by whom.
The new proposed legislation would restrict cannabis consumption to a "dwelling house" or the adjoining property, and the pot must have been purchased from a legal retailer. Condominium owners however, could be banned from using it if a majority of owners in their building passed a prohibition bylaw.
Apartment landlords, as property owners, will be able to decide whether tenants can consume in their units.
"We're allowing for owners to determine the consumption that they would be allowing," said Patricia Randell, director of cannabis implementation and education with Yukon's department of justice.
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