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After Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said to “stay tuned” to see how the city and police plan to oust illegal pot vendors from the Vancouver Art Gallery square, a handful of vendors were still operating an open drug market there.

Darren Tarry of Mission said on Friday that he sells marijuana there 12 hours a day, three days a week, without a permit or licence, and he usually has a lot of competition.

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“Today there’s four of us, but tomorrow it’s going to be crazy,” he said, saying there can be 30 to 40 vendors on a busy weekend day.

The mayor and Vancouver police admit they’re concerned about the growing number of unlicensed pot vendors who regularly sell on the 800 block of Robson Street, a pedestrian-only stretch of street.

“It’s an important public space,” Robertson told reporters last week. “Obviously that’s a permanent plaza now, so those current people that are illegally using that space, that’s a situation we have to deal with.”