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START TO FINISH: (Left photo) Some racers were all smiles Tuesday before the start of the 2018 New West Grand Prix. (Top photo) Race champion Sara Bergen, centre, celebrates by spraying champagne with runner-up Shannon Malseed, left, and third-place finisher Haley Gill. (Bottom right photo) New Westminster’s Lilly Ujfalusi, at right, is congratulated on the podium after finishing second in the women’s youth division race. For more photos and race results, see page 28. PHOTOS JENNIFER GAUTHIER
Five pot stores to start Theresa McManus tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca
New Westminster could eventually be home to a dozen cannabis stores, but will start small and allow just five in the first year. When the production, distribution, sale and possession of nonmedical cannabis becomes legal in Canada on Oct. 17, Canadian adults will be able to buy nonmedical cannabis legally from authorized retailers. “What staff have recommended is a relatively gradual phasing in of the cannabis retail locations,” said planner Mike Watson. “We have recommended initially limiting the intake to approximately 50 per cent of the anticipated number of cannabis stores. We would consider up to five cannabis locations in commercial areas across the city.” The city will initially consider one store in each of the core commercial areas of downtown, uptown and Sapperton, as well as two locations distributed among the remaining commercial areas of 12th Street, 20th Street, Queensborough and Eighth Avenue/McBride Boulevard. Based on the number of liquor stores in New West, the city belives there could eventually be about 11 cannabis stores in the city. “We don’t know what the demand is going to be.We have certainly had a lot of interest from a lot of different people in terms of looking at locations,”Watson said. “We do anticipate we are going to see some interested applicants.” The city has been developing a cannabis regulatory framework that addresses several issues, such as land-use requirements for pot shops. Continued on page 3
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