Two people are facing charges after Halifax Regional Police raided what they allege is an illegal cannabis dispensary on Friday.
Police say shortly before 4 p.m., officers executed a search warrant at Compassion Consulting, located at 601-46 Portland St.
READ MORE: N.S. RCMP investigating after several people eat edibles-laced cake at school event
As part of their search, investigators reportedly seized more than 750 grams of cannabis, 42 pre-rolled cannabis cigarettes, 82 units of cannabis oils and other cannabis products.
Get daily National news
A man and a woman, both from Dartmouth, face one count each of the following charges under the Cannabis Act:
- Possession for the purpose of distributing cannabis
- Possession of cannabis for the purpose of selling
- Possession for use in the distribution of illicit cannabis
They will appear in court at a later date.
- Vancouver police say 3 unprovoked stranger assaults took place in 1 day
- 16-year-old accused by Winnipeg police of murdering 15-year-old boy
- Police identify suspect van after caregiver, 60, left to die on side of road in Vaughan
- Toronto 18 ringleader no longer shows signs of extremism, granted full parole: board
In Nova Scotia, the NSLC is the only licensed retailer authorized to sell cannabis.
Comments
Comments closed.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.
Please see our Commenting Policy for more.