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The District of Summerland has added its voice to a chorus of agricultural communities asking the provincial government place a moratorium on new cannabis facilities on Agricultural Land Reserve lands.
Council endorsed a motion Monday calling on the province to consult with farmers, municipalities, industry and the public on the use of ALR land for the production of cannabis. Until that takes place, ALR land should not be used to grow marijuana, the resolution states.
Growing cannabis for medicinal purposes on ALR land is currently legal under federal regulations, but looming legalization has the recreational sector up in the air.
“It’s not a bad thing to have the discussion, nothing much is going to happen until the provincial government and federal government actually bring the regulations down,” Mayor Peter Waterman said.
The Districts of Kent and Central Saanich have already both made similar resolutions. The District of Summerland is currently in the process of drafting bylaws that would ban cannabis production from farmland.
