{"id":58922,"date":"2019-06-19T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=58922"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:46","slug":"armstrong-cannabis-quality-involves-careful-science-and-carefree-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/06\/armstrong-cannabis-quality-involves-careful-science-and-carefree-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Cannabis quality involves careful science and carefree highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cannabis-quality-involves-careful-science-and-carefree-highs-118679?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2019%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2019%202019+CID_24caef14c19d5915a91b2b5aa4ce6eee&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Cannabis%20quality%20involves%20careful%20science%20and%20carefree%20highs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece recently published in\u00a0<em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> about quality control in the cannabis industry.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Canada\u2019s legal cannabis industry continues to make progress.\u00a0Product shortages\u00a0are decreasing.\u00a0Store\u00a0numbers\u00a0are increasing. And\u00a0edible cannabis regulations\u00a0have just been finalized.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With these basics falling into place, the industry and its regulators can focus more on\u00a0competing with black markets. Product quality is one area where legal suppliers might have advantages. But to deliver good quality cannabis, producers must simultaneously aim for both careful science and carefree highs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This dual goal is partly due to government policy. Cannabis producers and products are federally regulated, much like pharmaceuticals. Health Canada oversees\u00a0producer licences,\u00a0package designs\u00a0and medical cannabis sales.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Meanwhile, cannabis retailing is provincially regulated, much as with alcohol. In Ontario, for example,\u00a0one provincial agency\u00a0runs wholesaling and online sales. Another handles\u00a0retail licences\u00a0and\u00a0employee qualifications.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cannabis-quality-involves-careful-science-and-carefree-highs-118679?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2019%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2019%202019+CID_24caef14c19d5915a91b2b5aa4ce6eee&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Cannabis%20quality%20involves%20careful%20science%20and%20carefree%20highs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published in\u00a0The Conversation about quality control in the cannabis industry.<\/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":[5191,594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58922"}],"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=58922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58923,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58922\/revisions\/58923"}],"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=58922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}