[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto weed dispensary closes doors ahead of looming crackdown"

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In a tweet-heavy article, City News notes the pressure on Toronto weed dispensaries. In fairness, I'm not sure what the owners of not-quite-legal businesses were thinking, with their plans to open up on such a large scale when the regulatory and legal frameworks were so vague.

Last weekend, Toronto Mayor John Tory walked into the Kind Supply marijuana dispensary in Kensington Market, seeking to learn more about the burgeoning industry that’s leapfrogged the legalization process.

“I went into one of them and started asking a lot of questions and the one I went into, they of course said that they were following all the rules and it was everybody else that wasn’t,” Tory told reporters. “They helped to educate me a little bit,” he added.

Tory’s trip may have amounted to the Cole’s notes version of a complex issue, but he emerged with a clear directive — it’s time to clamp down.

A few days later Tory penned a letter to Municipal Licensing and Standards urging immediate enforcement, in tandem with police, while the city further studies how to deal with the snowballing situation.