{"id":52797,"date":"2018-08-27T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=52797"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:58","slug":"armstrong-ontario-uproots-its-plans-for-selling-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/08\/armstrong-ontario-uproots-its-plans-for-selling-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Ontario uproots its plans for selling weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong,\u00a0Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ontario-uproots-its-plans-for-selling-weed-101855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece recently published in <em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> about changes to Ontario&#8217;s cannabis retail plan.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Ontario has announced big changes\u00a0to its recreational cannabis retail plan. Government-owned Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC) will still sell online, but will no longer open physical stores. Instead, businesses will handle all storefront sales.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Switching from public to private sector retailing will mean more stores. This means more convenience for Ontario cannabis consumers. That in turn will help legal cannabis compete against black market weed. But it may also increase use of the drug.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Conservative government\u2019s action on cannabis was much needed. The Liberal plan for an\u00a0OCRC retailing monopoly\u00a0was heading for disaster.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The first problem was consumer inconvenience. OCRC expected to open only\u00a040 outlets in 2018\u00a0to somehow compete against black marketeers for Ontario\u2019s 14 million residents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By contrast, Saskatchewan has already licensed\u00a051 retailers\u00a0to serve its one million people. Similarly, when Alberta started taking store applications to serve its four million residents, it received\u00a0452 in the first month.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ontario-uproots-its-plans-for-selling-weed-101855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong,\u00a0Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about changes to Ontario&#8217;s cannabis retail plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6],"tags":[594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52798,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52797\/revisions\/52798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}