{"id":55013,"date":"2018-12-11T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=55013"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:54","slug":"armstrong-challenging-times-for-cannabis-retailers-consumers-and-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/12\/armstrong-challenging-times-for-cannabis-retailers-consumers-and-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Challenging times for cannabis retailers, consumers and producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong,\u00a0Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, was <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/le-cannabis-legal-peut-il-concurrencer-le-marche-noir-106840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently published in <em>The Conversation<\/em>&#8216;s French-language edition<\/a>. It&#8217;s an updated version of a piece on legalization of cannabis in Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/legal-cannabis-vs-black-market-can-it-compete-104915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Avec le lancement du cannabis r\u00e9cr\u00e9atif l\u00e9gal le 17 octobre, plusieurs d\u00e9fis ont fait leur apparition, c&#8217;est le moins qu&#8217;on puisse dire\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Les distributeurs et les d\u00e9taillants connaissent d\u00e9j\u00e0 une\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelle\/1132143\/penurie-cannabis-sqdc-fermeture-lundi-mercredi-societe-quebecoise-?depuisRecherche=true\">p\u00e9nurie du produit<\/a>. Les gouvernements se penchent sur des questions comme les\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelle\/1130249\/federal-justice-projet-loi-pardon-cannabis-possession-simple?depuisRecherche=true\">amnisties<\/a>\u00a0et la\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelle\/1136076\/cannabis-pot-conducteur-ebriete-drogue-police?depuisRecherche=true\">conduite avec facult\u00e9s affaiblies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>La l\u00e9galisation a aussi provoqu\u00e9 l&#8217;\u00e9mergence d&#8217;une f\u00e9roce comp\u00e9tition entre le march\u00e9 du cannabis l\u00e9gal et le march\u00e9 noir.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelle\/1129542\/interdiction-cannabis-18-ans-caq-legault-trudeau?depuisRecherche=true\">L&#8217;\u00e9limination des fournisseurs ill\u00e9gaux<\/a>\u00a0est un des objectifs principaux de la l\u00e9galisation. Afin de r\u00e9ussir, les producteurs, les d\u00e9taillants et particuli\u00e8rement les gouvernements doivent apprendre et s\u2019adapter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/le-cannabis-legal-peut-il-concurrencer-le-marche-noir-106840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story here (in French).<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong,\u00a0Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, was recently published in The Conversation&#8217;s French-language edition. It&#8217;s an updated version of a piece on legalization of cannabis in Canada published earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,6,4,5],"tags":[594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55013"}],"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=55013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55014,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55013\/revisions\/55014"}],"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=55013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}