The City of Vernon has provided its feedback to the B.C. government on how non-medicinal cannabis will be regulated in the province next year. 

• Adequate funding to cover the impacts of legalization on municipal services, such as bylaw compliance, RCMP, planning and licensing.
• Develop a retail model for cannabis that allows for both public and private sales, similar to the model currently in place for alcohol.
• Allow local governments to develop their own regulations for personal cultivation. 
• Public consumption of cannabis be subjected to the same restrictions as tobacco and vapour products.
• Allow the City to develop additional regulations on public consumption, such how to regulate the use in parks.

The consultation is part of the provincial government’s ongoing engagement process to determine how cannabis will be regulated and distributed in British Columbia.