The mayor of Sun Peaks says there have been little-to-no growing pains over legal cannabis as the resort town prepares to allow its first store.

Al Raine says a public hearing for the proposed store earlier this month was well attended and highly-supported.

“Quite frankly, I would say over 80 per cent of people who wrote in to the public hearing, or submitted verbal comments, over 80 per cent were in favour of proceeding,” Raine says.

“We didn’t really have an issue around ‘is cannabis morally correct?’ We tried to avoid that, certainly giving people at the public hearing the information that we weren’t here to debate the legality or the moral issues around cannabis. We were here to talk about whether the site proposed could do the job.”

The store would be located at 1160 Sun Peaks Road if it is granted a provincial sales license, which will likely still take months.

An application for another cannabis store – and a gas station – was at council earlier this year, but Raine says that developer has withdrawn their application.