{"id":56332,"date":"2019-02-25T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=56332"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:51","slug":"armstrong-how-canadians-are-buying-cannabis-and-getting-high-now-that-its-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/02\/armstrong-how-canadians-are-buying-cannabis-and-getting-high-now-that-its-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: How Canadians are buying cannabis and getting high now that it\u2019s legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, Michael Armstrong, wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-canadians-are-buying-cannabis-and-getting-high-now-that-its-legal-111464?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%2019%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%2019%202019+CID_a0190de8a85be3e7aeb7d0eb48dea539&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=How%20Canadians%20are%20buying%20cannabis%20and%20getting%20high%20now%20that%20its%20legal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece recently published in\u00a0<em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a>\u00a0looking at how Canadians are purchasing recreational marijuana in the wake of legalization.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>There was much speculation throughout 2018 about Canada\u2019s soon-to-be-legal cannabis market. But only recently has data become available that shows what cannabis consumers really want and actually buy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For example, Statistics Canada recently released its\u00a0National Cannabis Survey. The most-discussed finding is that cannabis use did not jump after legalization in October. The proportion of Canadians using it stayed around 15 per cent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That\u2019s good news for politicians who supported legalization, and for\u00a0physicians concerned\u00a0that legality would prompt surging usage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-canadians-are-buying-cannabis-and-getting-high-now-that-its-legal-111464?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%2019%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%2019%202019+CID_a0190de8a85be3e7aeb7d0eb48dea539&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=How%20Canadians%20are%20buying%20cannabis%20and%20getting%20high%20now%20that%20its%20legal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, Michael Armstrong, wrote a piece recently published in\u00a0The Conversation\u00a0looking at how Canadians are purchasing recreational marijuana in the wake of legalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56332"}],"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=56332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56333,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56332\/revisions\/56333"}],"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=56332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}