Residents of the City of Calgary are being invited to participate in an online survey set up to gather feedback on how they’d like to see recreational marijuana managed in the city.
The feedback form, available on the city’s website, will provide some important details to administrators as the city works towards a formal plan for when cannabis becomes legal in Canada next year.
“We want as many citizens as possible to go to engage.calgary.ca/cannabis and fill out the feedback form. While we have to work within the federal legislation and the provincial framework, the information we collect will be very important to the decisions we make around amending bylaws and making sure our regulations reflect areas of local concern,” said Matt Zablonski, Calgary’s lead for the cannabis legalization project.
The city says that the questionnaire focusses on business regulations, retail sales, consumption and home growing.
Zablonski says that the province hasn’t come up with a formal strategy for retail sales, so the city needs to be ready for whatever decision is made so the appropriate bylaws can be changed.
The survey is open from November 20 to December 10.
The city has set a deadline to amend all bylaws by April 2018.
For more information on cannabis legalization in Canada, go to the city’s website.
