You may be able to smoke legal recreational pot in Point Roberts this summer
Posted May 16, 2014 12:08 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Our neighbours in Washington State are set to open up legal pot shops in our backyard as soon as this summer.
BC smokers and tokers won’t have to travel far, with places as close as Point Roberts applying for licences to open up these shops to sell weed for recreational use.
Those licences are set to be handed out in July.
According to BC marijuana activist Dana Larsen, plenty of people here are looking forward to making the cross-border trek.
“A lot of Canadians and a lot of British Columbians are going to head across the border to try legal marijuana, but they better not tell a customs agent,” he tells us.
If you are going across the line, Larsen says you shouldn’t tell border agents you’re going there to smoke pot; while lighting up is legal in Washington State, it’s still a crime federally and could get you banned from the US for life.
