Surrey greenlights 8 companies to open 12 cannabis stores

Six years aft the legalization of cannabis, British Columbia’s second-largest metropolis is connected the verge of seeing its archetypal recreational cookware shops.

Surrey metropolis councillors voted Monday nighttime to o.k. a twelve cannabis stores, to beryllium operated by 8 businesses.

The retail outlets volition beryllium required to run nether a model assembly approved past spring, which bans them from wrong 200 metres of schools, assemblage centres and different cannabis businesses.

Thirty-one applications were submitted to council, which a unit reappraisal narrowed down to the 8 approved operators. Those who got the greenish airy volition present request to get rezoning permits, concern licences and provincial licensing earlier they tin unfastened their doors.

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The Surrey Board of Trade applauded the city’s move.

“By enabling a regulated and liable cannabis retail industry, Surrey is opening doors for economical growth, occupation creation, and gross diversification, portion enhancing user information done a regulated market,” interim spokesperson Jasroop Gosal said successful a media release.

“This determination is simply a important milestone successful gathering a balanced section system that tin conscionable the divers needs of our community.”

Surrey’s cannabis model allows for up to 12 retail stories, with a maximum of 2 successful each of its six communities.