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Toronto Police Chief, Mark Saunders, was hounded by medical marijuana activists during a news conference on Friday as he was trying to detail a major weed bust that shut down several dispensaries.

Project Claudia, a city-wide drug bust that saw 43 weed dispensaries shut down Thursday afternoon, ended with 90 people arrested and 186 charges laid. Nearly 600 pounds of dried pot was collected and 23 grams of cocaine was confiscated at one dispensary. Chief Saunders says police targeted businesses operating illegally and that posed a health concern. These locations cannot tell you where their products are coming from nor what the actual content is unless they’re guessing.

Health Canada says that there’s no dispensary license for businesses to distribute medical marijuana and many people are calling for regulations. However Marc Emery, who served five years in a US jail for selling Canadian marijuana seeds to Americans, says pot regulations are out of the question. He says that any restriction on weed that excludes Canadians is wrong.

While protestors demonstrated outside police headquarters, medical marijuana users flocked to whatever dispensaries that were still open. Project Claudia shut down several illegal marijuana dispensaries but some like Cannibus Clinic, which has three locations, are still open and haven’t been touched. Some customers said the store was spared since it was ‘legit,’ but it’s still selling pot over the counter and that is illegal.

Ousted dispensary employees believe regulating how they operate needs to be ironed out in the future so that all stores are on the same page.