What seems to be a medical marijuana dispensary of some type will open at 562 Mt. Pleasant Rd. The South Bayview Bulldog confirmed the planned location but was unable to learn much more from employees working at the Green Room Society store at 402 Spadina Ave. Call back later was the best that an unnamed person at that store could offer. Still, the Green Room organization seems ready to sell by whatever letter of the law it can, that good old-fashioned Mary Jane from its Midtown “pharmacy.” The law aside, the Green Room Society is a fast growing chain using as its brand image, the green cross so familiar as the symbol of pharmacies in Europe. The state of marijuana law in Canada is in serious flux with governments making policy statements and then reversing them, or just backing away from stated future policy. Doctors may prescribe marijuana for medical use although the College of Physicians and Surgeons has told its members to be sure the diagnoses are reliable. It appears that smoking marijuana for personal use has been de-criminalized but the sharing of amounts of weed seems to be problematic. In any case, as indicated above, there is no information from the Green Room Society as to the who, what or when of activity at the Mt. Pleasant location which sits on the west side between Belsize Drive and Penrose Ave. It appears however that the place will be heavily defended at least by bars. That is the way the other locations (two in Vancouver) and on Spadina appear.
Green Room Society store at 562 Mt. Pleasant
