BUSINESSES RESPOND FAVOURABLY TO PROPOSED BYLAW LIMITING SALE OF DRUG
PARAPHERNALIA

LANGLEY - Businesses are responding favourably to a proposed bylaw
that will limit or prevent sale of drug paraphernalia. City council is
expected to approve the bylaw. In advance of that, however, Langley
RCMP Const. Laurine Croshaw and the city's chief licensing inspector
Tim Hickey are making visits to some of the local stores known to
carry such items.

There are no stores in Langley City that deal exclusively with drug
paraphernalia but there are at least five corner stores or smoke shops
that carry related items, Hickey said.

They'll be asking store owners to stop sales of all such items, or
failing that explain the reporting process that will be introduced.
Shop owners will be required to report to police the names and
particulars of anyone buying anything "used or designed for" illegal
drug consumption.