The B.C. government has relieved one regulatory burden from recreational marijuana stores, and imposed another one.

After hundreds of cannabis retailers frosted or masked windows under license terms the province imposed in late 2018, Attorney General David Eby announced June 18 that 91裸聊视频渘on-transparent walls91裸聊视频� are no longer required. The change applies to private retailers and government-owned BC Cannabis stores, which used frosted glass.

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The province is also requiring non-medical cannabis retail employees to take a 91裸聊视频渟elling it right91裸聊视频� online course at a cost of $35 plus GST, for a certificate good for two years after completion. Existing cannabis retail and marketing businesses, including government stores, have until Sept. 30 to ensure their employees complete the course, which is based on the 91裸聊视频渟erving it right91裸聊视频� course for liquor retailers.

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Regulations are administered by the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch, part of the province91裸聊视频檚 transition after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared recreational cannabis legal in October 2018. The province has yet to cover its costs from the project, which includes a 15 per cent markup to stores from the provincial monopoly liquor and cannabis wholesaler.

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