Killarney-Turtle Mountain council has voted in favour of allowing cannabis to be sold in the municipality.

Municipalities have been voting on the issue and are supposed to let it be known by the end of the year what their intentions are when it comes to retailers setting up shop to sell cannabis.

“We as a council said we will allow the sale of it here. We think that if we said no it would be kind of like the prohibition era where some places didn’t allow it. Whether or not we will actually see a retail place in this community is up for debate.”

Pauls added a lot of the decisions are going to come down from the federal and provincial governments. “We didn’t have a say in it becoming legalized, we didn’t have a say in a lot of the provincial decisions and it’s just whether or not you are going to allow it to be sold. We didn’t think it was up to us to ban something that was going to be legal in Canada.

The mayor of Killarney-Turtle Mountain thinks the cannabis issue will raise a whole new set of concerns both federally and provincially.

"Specifically for us border communities I think once it’s legal in Canada we are going to see long line ups for people trying to get into the United States. I think people looking to make a quick trip into the U-S will be faced with long line ups because once cannabis is legal there will be extensive searches at the border.”

Pauls also worries about possible line ups keeping U-S citizens from coming to Canada.