Surrey residents will now be able to buy their cannabis within city limits after council decided in a 5-4 vote April 14 to recommend that the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation issue a cannabis retail store licence to applicants in nine locations.
Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke and councillors Mandeep Nagra, Rob Stutt and Gordon Hepner voted against it at third reading and councillors Doug Elford, Pardeep Kooner, Harry Bains, Linda Annis and Mike Bose voted in favour.
The vote came after related public hearings that night during which council heard from 35 speakers. The majority were the applicants’ staffers, who sang the praises of their employers.
The successful applicants intend to open stores at Unit 108-15775 Croydon Dr. (Burb Cannabis Corp) and Unit 125-16030 24 St. (Lightbox Enterprises dba Dutch Love Cannabis) in South Surrey, and in North Surrey at Unit 502-7380 King George Blvd. (Imagine Cannabis Co.), Unit 103-9014 152 St. (1486965 B.C. Ltd.), 15148 Fraser Hwy. (1181168 B.C. Ltd.), 19581 Fraser Hwy. (R. Basran), Unit 201-13650 102 Ave. (Lightbox Enterprises dba Duth Love Cannabis), 10383 150 St. (1486965 B.C. Ltd.), and Unit 5-10330 152 St. (Imagine Cannabis Co.).