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Amid the legal and regulatory haze, Toronto Police say they are only going after any of the vape lounges, pot shops and other green-tinged businesses on a complaints basis. And, if the Forum poll is any indication, most Torontonians, are totally cool with it.

“Toronto police is dealing with marijuana on a complaint basis at the moment,” said Victor Kwong, media relations officer with the Toronto Police Service. He said it’s a “different story” if someone is moving a truckload of pot but police are, generally, not going after this green rush “because everything right now is ambiguous.”

Those who do hold doctor-prescribed medical pot licences can grow their own weed — for now at least after a court ruling struck down those prohibitions. But the only way to legally buy weed in Canada remains to hold that prescription and order it from one of the half dozen or so Health Canada approved companies.

And yet the industry keeps growing, like, well a weed.

Photo by JONATHAN HAYWARD / THE CANADIAN PRESS

There are dozens of dispensaries in Toronto operating in various states of legality — as many as 50 by some counts. The Forum Survey of 908 residents found as many as 10 per cent say they live near a dispensary, 36 per cent openly admit to having pot and as many as one in 25 holds a medical pot card. (Two per cent said they did and two per cent refused to answer, which prompted the polling firm to surmise the upper limit).

Downtown residents are more likely to hold a card and to approve of the dispensaries, where most of these new pot shops are located.