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Bay Ward Coun. Mark Taylor has written a letter to police Chief Charles Bordeleau asking Bordeleau to close a marijuana pot dispensary on McEwen Avenue.

The letter comes days after the west-side dispensary was robbed for the third time in two months.

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“I am writing you today with respect to the CanaGreen marijuana location at 102 McEwen Ave. in my ward, its ongoing illegal activities and the repeated break-in events that have occurred there,” Taylor said Thursday in his letter, which he also posted on Twitter.

CannaGreen is one of a string of affiliated shops that have popped up in Ottawa run by a British Columbia outfit. Two of the shops, Herbal Leaf on Bank Street and Trees on Montreal Road, recently closed.

“I am moved however on behalf of my community to request more direct and visible action to close the 102 McEwen Ave. CannaGreen location promptly, ceasing its own illegal operation and its action as a magnet for additional criminal activity.”

Pot shops are illegal, but have proliferated in advance of the federal government’s promised legalization of recreational marijuana.

People with documentation from their health-care providers can legally buy, and receive through the mail, medicinal cannabis from 52 producers licensed by Health Canada.

A police declined to comment on Taylor’s request.