Up in the air: B.C. puts off decision on cannabis lounges

They call it “The Box”.

Inside the front door of the Victoria Cannabis Buyers’ Club, just a few steps past the display cases full of marijuana products, there’s a room where people smoke and vape marijuana.

“It seemed unfair to provide a source for cannabis but then kick people out onto the street to use it,” said Ted Smith, who founded the compassion club, one of the oldest in the country, in 1996.

This smoking room is, and always has been, illegal. Smith hopes that will change with the legalization