The Town of Altona is getting to work preparing for the legal retail sale of Cannabis this summer.
    
Dan Gagne, Chief Administrative Officer, explained that an internal working group will handle the task of coming up with regulations.

"Many communities are having to decide on a number of rules and regulations," he said. "(This includes) the proximity to schools and child care centres, which zoning districts those retail outlets should be located."

He added that while some communities are reaching out to other stakeholders in this process, Altona Council felt this working group needed to stay internal for the time being and with input coming from the various Town departments.

"And then we'll seek some feedback from the school division, health authority and other members of the community just to find out if that's consistent with what the community would like."

Gagne noted the end result of this process could be the formation of an overall cannabis by-law for the Town or amendments to current zoning bylaws.