It’s still not known if people will able to buy marijuana products at Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation stores next year when the federal government legalizes it.
The federal government announced its intention to legalize cannabis with a target date of July, 2018.
Premier Stephen MacNeil says the province will be ready.
He says all the provincial departments, including Justice, Finance, Health and Service Nova Scotia are invloved in the process.
However MacNeil couldn’t say if people will be able to pick up a gram of weed with a case of beer at NSLC stores.
“There are a number of options being looked at. That obviously will be one of them. There’s been no decision made at this point.”
In April the province’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Robert Strang, told reporters it will take the province a “significant amount of time” for the province to introduce its own legislation.
Strang said officials are “very concerned” about a summer of 2018 timeline.
The new law would allow adults 18 and over to possess up to 30 grams of dried cannabis or its equivalent in public, share up to 30 grams of dried marijuana with other adults and buy cannabis or cannabis oil from authorized retailers.