The owner of a North Vancouver cannabis retail store who faced 21 municipal bylaw offences has received the maximum fine of $252,000.
Kevin Anderson, who previously owned The Herban Art Collective, reportedly flouted municipal rules for years, according to North Shore News.
Despite not having either provincial or municipal licences to set up shop, he continued to operate the store at two different locations — the landlords for both terminated his lease, the latter after a search warrant was executed — for three years. He advertised the cannabis products he was selling as either “organic” or “craft” on Instagram, Facebook and a website.
Fed up with issuing warnings and tickets that had little effect, municipal bylaw charges citing almost two-dozen breaches of city bylaws were sworn.
Anderson pleaded guilty last fall to numerous counts of operating a business without a licence and using
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