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Like property prices and many citizens of Vancouver, the value of unpaid tickets issued to the city’s rogue pot shops is high and keeps getting higher.

Recently, the value of unpaid dispensary tickets passed the $1 million mark.

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While Vancouver continues to crack down on scofflaw dispensaries, the latest numbers show they’re having limited success: as of this week, 64 dispensaries were operating without a licence, compared to 31 working within the city’s licensing system, while the city had issued 2,024 tickets to dispensaries with only 406 tickets (or 20 per cent) paid.

And of the $1.2 million worth of tickets issued by the City of Vancouver to unlicensed illegal dispensaries in the last 15 months, the city had collected only $160,000 as of last week, according to numbers provided by the city, while $1.04 million remained unpaid.

The City of Vancouver was not able to provide data for collection rates on other kinds of city-issued bylaw infraction tickets for comparison, but the city’s 2017 Budget and Five-Year Financial Plan reported that between 2012 and 2015, the city issued an average of 350,385 parking tickets per year, with an average of 86 per cent of those tickets paid.