With legalization legislation looming this spring, should police continue to arrest and charge people who run marijuana dispensaries? Notably, raids were carried out at the behest of Toronto police in Vancouver, the only city in Canada that has drafted a set of bylaws to regulate marijuana shops in the absence of federal laws. "The dispensary advocates want you to believe ... there's a grey area. Chan argued that in a world of "limited resources," police attention on marijuana shops takes it away from other areas, a problem in a justice system he described as "overburdened." "The vast majority of these cases will still be in the system at the time marijuana becomes legalized," he said.

Source: CBC News March 11, 2017 09:56 UTC