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Pot shops welcome in Sault Ste. Marie, while smoking banned from parks

Marijuana stores will be welcomed in Sault Ste. Marie, but the list of places you can smoke it just got shorter.

Extended city smoking bylaw bans the smoking of anything in Sault city parks

A person rolling a joint.
Sault Ste. Marie city council has voted to welcome marijuana stores, while at the same restricting where anything can be smoked in the city. (Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty Images)

Marijuana stores will be welcomed in Sault Ste. Marie, but the list of places you can smoke it in the cityjust got shorter.

City council voted to allow cannabis dispensaries with not oneword of a debate on Monday night.

But there was a little more discussion about a proposal from staff that the city's smoking bylaw be extended to include cannabis and to ban the smoking of anything, including tobacco and electronic cigarettes, from city parks.

It passed, with newly elected Sault Ste. Marie city councillor Corey Gardi asthe lone vote against.

"If someone wanted to walk down Queen Street smoking a joint, they'd be allowed to, correct?" he asked staff at Monday's council meeting.

"Correct. On sidewalks the smoking of tobacco or cannabis is permitted," replied assistant city solicitorMelanie Borowicz-Sibenik.

"And currently if someone wanted to walk down Queen Street drinking a beer, would they be permitted to?" Gardi asked.

"No,that would not be permitted," she answered.

City council did specifically include the John Rowswell Hub Trail in the bylaw as a place where you can smoke in Sault Ste. Marie.