New system marks evolution in how B.C. authorities regulates entry to authorized hashish
Organizers at Victoria’s Rifflandia Music Festival are set to permit attendees to order hashish and choose up their orders on-site.
Whereas that won’t sound like a controversial growth, it could be the primary time that this has occurred in B.C.
Rifflandia CEO Nick Blasko instructed BIV that he thinks there might have been a pageant within the Kootenays that did this, however in any other case his occasion could be breaking new floor.
Attendees will be capable of purchase hashish on-line by Rifflandia’s accomplice, Vernon-based Blended Buds. Supply firm SendDirect would then deal with product supply to customers on the pageant’s websites, he mentioned. Rifflandia is not going to generate any income from hashish gross sales. It is making the hashish accessible as a service to its attendees, Blasko mentioned.
Rifflandia is happening at Victoria’s Electrical Avenue, alongside Pembroke Avenue, Sept. 7 by 9. It then strikes to Victoria’s Royal Athletic Park, on Caledonia Avenue, Sept. 15 by 17. Artists set to carry out embody Iggy Pop, Mavis Staples, Diplo and Herbie Hancock.
Attendees who wish to order hashish on the pageant must go to an age-gated space the place there could be QR codes for them to make use of smartphones to scan. Blasko mentioned that attendees would then see a restricted menu of merchandise with low Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is the lively ingredient in hashish.
His pageant may have smoking areas the place hashish people who smoke can toke.
“That is about easing into this concept that individuals who wish to devour hashish at a pageant’s grounds can do it,” he mentioned.
“They don’t have to worry about smuggling it in or doing it in a clandestine way. They can have a legal framework, a regulated product, and be able to buy it from a reputable retailer and have it delivered and consume it to their heart’s content.”
His festival will have a liquor licence to enables attendees to buy, carry and consume alcoholic drinks around the festival site.
B.C. cannabis regulations have loosened
B.C. government restrictions on ordering and delivering cannabis have loosened since the Canadian government legalized adult use in October 2018.
Initially, the only legal cannabis e-commerce orders in B.C. were those conducted through the provincial government’s BC Cannabis Stores website.
In August 2000, the B.C. government started to allow licensed private cannabis retailers to sell products online, but it still required their customers to pick up their purchases at bricks-and-mortar stores.
The provincial government then ended its 34-month monopoly on delivering legal cannabis in July 2021.
Earlier this year, British Columbian cannabis shoppers gained another legal platform to help them get their weed, as food-delivery giant Uber Eats added cannabis to its app’s options.
Uber Eats drivers do not deliver cannabis products. The arrangement is largely an advertising and accessibility-based initiative, where Uber Eats customers are able to click a tab on the app to scroll through eligible cannabis retailers, and then connect to a cannabis marketplace site known as Leafly.
Private legal cannabis retailers opt to be accessible on Leafly.
Customers can then click through to cannabis retailers on Leafly, place orders with the individual retailers and have the retailers’ staff deliver the products.
This is the same system that Uber Eats uses in Ontario.
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