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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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Source:northumberlandtoday.com
Author: VALERIE MACDONALD
Contact: Contact Us - Northumberland Today - Ontario, CA
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Website:Group wants municipal participation in medical marijuana operations - Northumberland Today - Ontario, CA
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.
NewsHawk: MedicalNeed:420 MAGAZINE
Source:northumberlandtoday.com
Author: VALERIE MACDONALD
Contact: Contact Us - Northumberland Today - Ontario, CA
Copyright: 010 , Osprey Media Publishing Inc
Website:Group wants municipal participation in medical marijuana operations - Northumberland Today - Ontario, CA
