{"id":60769,"date":"2019-09-25T08:55:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T12:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=60769"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:42","slug":"armstrong-a-campaign-promise-kept-canadas-modestly-successful-cannabis-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/09\/armstrong-a-campaign-promise-kept-canadas-modestly-successful-cannabis-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: A campaign promise kept: Canada\u2019s modestly successful cannabis legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/a-campaign-promise-kept-canadas-modestly-successful-cannabis-legalization-122380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a> about the anniversary of Canada&#8217;s recreational cannabis legalization and a timely review of how it&#8217;s worked out.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The anniversary of Canada\u2019s recreational cannabis legalization arrives Oct. 17, just days before the federal election. Legalization was a Liberal campaign promise from the last election, so it\u2019s timely to review how it\u2019s worked out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Consumers evidently like legalization. Statistics Canada just reported that July\u2019s recreational sales hit $104 million.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Politicians apparently like it too. It\u2019s an election promise the Liberals kept\u00a0and that no other party plans to repeal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But how well has it reduced black market cannabis, as promised?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/a-campaign-promise-kept-canadas-modestly-successful-cannabis-legalization-122380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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 The Conversation about the anniversary of Canada&#8217;s recreational cannabis legalization and a timely review of how it&#8217;s worked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,6],"tags":[2852,594,4395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60769"}],"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=60769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60770,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60769\/revisions\/60770"}],"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=60769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}