[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto looks to Vancouver for help licensing medical marijuana dispensaries"

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CBC News' Amanda Grant looks at how Toronto is trying to borrow from Vancouver's experience with marijuana dispensaries, to better manage this new retail sector.

Toronto is looking west to Vancouver as it considers implementing some regulations on illegally operating medical marijuana dispensaries across the city.

The decision comes after a rapid growth in the industry in Toronto, with dispensaries opening on the Danforth, in Kensington Market, in Bloordale and on Dundas Street West, to name just a few neighbourhoods.

"We just can't have allegedly medical marijuana dispensaries popping up on every street corner in a completely unregulated manner," said Mayor John Tory.

"We can't have the Wild West of marijuana distribution," he said.