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Clean air bylaw may be updated to include vaping and marijuana restrictions

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The CRD is looking to address a bylaw amendment that will affect vapers and cannabis smokers in Victoria.

Introduced in 2014, the city’s Clean Air Bylaw banned tobacco smoking at all parks, playgrounds, playing fields, public squares and bus stops. It also extended the smoke-free buffer zone outside of doorways, windows and air intakes from three metres to seven metres.

Today’s update to the bylaw was addressed by Island Health’s Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Richard Stanwick.

If approved, it would ban vaping, smoking weed, or “burning any substances” in the spaces designated by the existing Clean Air Bylaw.

The CRD Planning and Protective Services Committee voted in favour of the amendment at a meeting this morning. Their recommendation will now be passed on to the CRD Board.

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Brishti Basu
Former Senior Staff Writer and Content Manager at Victoria Buzz.

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