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Saskatoon City Council has no plans to designate public spaces for recreational marijuana consumption, Mayor Charlie Clark says.

Clark made the pronouncement Tuesday evening during a community consultation hosted by the Saskatoon Board of Police Commissioners.

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Clark and other members of the board fielded questions about what the city and police force have done in preparation for the legalization of marijuana on Oct. 17.

The Saskatchewan government says people smoking marijuana in public will be slapped with a $200 fine.

One man at the community consultation, who said he works with people living in social housing, pointed out that people who don’t own homes don’t have a place to smoke the drug in private. He asked whether city council was considering a bylaw to make safe places for people to smoke in public.

Clark acknowledged that a “conflict point” will be created when people who want to smoke marijuana don’t have a legal space to do so. But in spite of that, council has no plans to designate spaces where people can legally smoke.