An education campaign continues as the Dryden Police Services tries to get everyone comfortable with the new Cannabis rules.
Police are out with the following information:
Where is it legal to smoke or vape cannabis?
-Private residences that are not also workplaces.
-Outdoor public places like sidewalks and parks.
-Designated guest rooms in hotels, motels and inns.
-Controlled areas in long-term care homes, certain retirement homes, residential hospices, provincially funded supportive housing, psychiatric facilities or veteran’s facilities.
You cannot smoke or vape in:
-A car or boat.
-Enclosed public places and work places.
-Schools and other places and work places.
-Schools and other places where children gather.
-Within 20-metres of playgrounds and sports fields.
-Within nine metres of the entrance to a hospital, long-term care or psychiatric facility entrance.
No major problems have so far been reported by Dryden Police.
