A peculiar legal loophole in Ontario, Canada’sweed lawsprevents authorities from accessing and shutting down alleged illegal cannabis dispensaries that operate out of people’s homes. Predictably, the state is not happy about it.
这就是为什么Torontolaw enforcement has dropped large concrete blocks in front of the storefronts in question. Big blocks = no buyers going in and no product going out. Reddit user okThisYear snapped apictureof one of the piles, which resemble a drunk giant Lego pile-on:
This cement chock-a-block has to be one of the more ham-handedarchitectures of exclusion. But it wasn’t a first-try tactic: Previously, authorities had padlocked entrances and installed steel doors to prevent illegal sales, but the strategy didn’t deter around 15 percent of the city’s craftiest underground dealers, who continued to peddle cannabis from their stores-slash-homes. As of this year, weed is legal in Toronto, but the drug can only be sold by licensed dispensaries.
CBCreportedthat a bill to close the loophole receivedroyal assent(it passed) over the objections of some legislators who fear the law might lead to evictions if residents who are not participating in the weed business are found guilty of unlawful sales by association.
