Kamloops city council has given a green light to two more retail pot shops in the city.

The private storefronts will be located in the 300 block of Victoria Street downtown and on Sydney Avenue on the North Shore.

The city’s director of development services Marvin Kwiatkowski says the number of pot shops council can support is nearly at its unofficial limit.

“We’re at almost 20 applications and I would think they probably would start to slow down in the near future. But that’s probably what we would’ve initially proposed, is 15 to 20. So we’re getting close to that 20 number,” Kwiatkowski.

“In the last week I don’t recall seeing one, so it’s been pretty steady I would say, weekly, at least one application. So I would suspect they’re going to start to slow down.”

The two most recent retail cannabis store applications will still need a sales license from the province before opening.

So far only two of out 17 retail cannabis stores in Kamloops have opened.