The smell of marijuana will soon be present in all of our public spaces thanks to Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government, Martin Regg Cohn writes. But thanks to the provincial Progressive Conservatives, marijuana has been liberalized — far beyond what Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals had announced. Where once dope was driven underground, now the sky’s the limit in Ontario. City governments will have until January to opt out of private cannabis stores in their jurisdictions, after which they will be locked in for all time. By enabling a private sector free-for-all, municipal authorities will have to play whack-a-mole in scrutinizing appropriate locations (no special cannabis zoning restrictions allowed).

Source: thestar October 15, 2018 21:33 UTC