Group Wants Municipal Participation In Medical Marijuana Operations

[MedicalNeed]

PORT HOPE - The Port Hope-area Marijuana Focus Group wants Port Hope police to get involved in screening people and overseeing grow-operations designated by Health Canada to grow marijuana for medical purposes.

The group, led by chair Leigh Winfield of RR3 Port Hope, focused its attention on recommendations concerning the "designated-person production licence" and its concerns about the personal-use production licence, states a letter received by the Port Hope Police Services Board at its monthly meeting Oct. 21.

"...If any of our recommendations (to Health Canada) become part of the regulations, there will be onus on the municipality to perform due diligence reviews of a Designated-Person Production Licence applicants' documentation prior to Health Canada considering the actual application," Winfield states in her letter of Sept 9.

"As it currently stands... the holder (of the licence) does not actually apply for a licence and that is what is so disconcerting to our group," she also states.

The group is also asking the municipality, and the police services board, to implement their recommendations pertaining to the safety and security of residents.

"We, the ratepayers, have rights to a safe and secure environment."

The police services board received the package for information after OPP Inspector Doug Borton said that the recommendations were also being sent to bodies beyond just Health Canada, including to the OPP and Canadian and Ontario police associations.

The local focus group was formed because of the "construction of a large facility by a designated-person production licence holder for the purported purpose of supplying products to holders of a personal-use production licence," states a separate letter to Health Canada from Winfield.

While the group supports the use of marijuana being used for medical purposes, it is suggesting no production take place until "designated to do so in a personal-use production licence" with municipal notification in order to monitor it -and protect its citizens, Winfield's letter to Health Canada also states.

The group suggests the following additions to an application before it is approved: a site plan, environmental assessment, registration with the local police board after approval by the municipality, that security be in place, there be scheduled inspections by health, fire and police authorities, plus insurance.


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[Purple Goose]

Now this is total horseshit they want the people who spend 5 months already to jump through a bunch more hoops so that by the time they finally are allowed to grow in there municipality they are up for renewal again and forget the fact that most of us grow our own because of cost they are trying to shove all these new rules and regulations down our throats to grow pot. But I am willing to bet if the people who started this had a neighbour by a 1000w light system to grow tomatoes indoor they wouldnt even have a thing to say and the fact is growing any plant indoors under HID lights has the same saftey factors as far as production goes the only added safety concern when growing bud is the security needed to protect yourself from rippers. But the average 1000w hps light is made to run on a standard 15 amp circuit with no undue safety concerns so if a person like myself is growing with no more then 1k lights all they need in there grow room are thos neat little 3 piece fire extinguishers that spray for normal combustibles ,fuels and chemical fires and electrical cost is like 100$ and that and a smoke detector in the grow room will give anyone who has half a brain the ability to prevent just about any fire except for ones caused by massive surges like a lightning strike blowing the ballast up.