Toronto pot shop raids: Huge success or costly attack?
Toronto’s law-and-order approach has been either a victory for safe neighbourhoods, or a hypocritical attack on pot pioneers to enable a corporate takeover of their lucrative industry
The Toronto Star (Canada)
Friday, April 7, 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017
Shut down, Mayor John Tory told marijuana shop owners, or face “whatever enforcement mechanisms” the city can muster to extinguish the “wildfire” spread of pot shops across Toronto. Almost a year and many raids, seizures, arrests and court dates later, the federal government is poised to clear the legal haze as early as next week. Police, meanwhile, continue playing whack-a-mole with storefront pot vendors numbering, at the moment, 52. Depending on who you talk to, Toronto’s law-and-order approach has been either a qualified success and victory for safe neighbourhoods, or a hypocritical, costly attack on pot pioneers to enable a corporate takeover of their lucrative industry.
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