{"id":61209,"date":"2019-10-10T08:43:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=61209"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:42","slug":"armstrong-why-canadas-governments-need-to-review-their-cannabis-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/10\/armstrong-why-canadas-governments-need-to-review-their-cannabis-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Why Canada\u2019s governments need to review their cannabis strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, had a piece published Wednesday, Oct. 7 in\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/robcannabispro\/article-canadas-governments-need-to-review-their-cannabis-strategies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Globe and Mail<\/a> about why Canada\u2019s governments need to review their cannabis strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\"><em>&#8220;Data released Friday by Health Canada show that sales volumes of legal cannabis increased 8 per cent in July. Summer sales also demonstrated the importance of a steadily expanding network of bricks-and-mortar retail stores.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\"><em>That welcome news, along with legalization\u2019s first anniversary next week, make it all the more timely for federal and provincial governments to review their respective cannabis strategies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\"><em>July\u2019s strong overall growth was due to dry cannabis sales climbing 14 per cent to 11,387 kilograms. Both recreational (9,747 kg) and medical (1,640 kg) volumes increased<\/em><em>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/robcannabispro\/article-canadas-governments-need-to-review-their-cannabis-strategies\/\" 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, had a piece published Wednesday, Oct. 7 in\u00a0the Globe and Mail about why Canada\u2019s governments need to review their cannabis strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,6],"tags":[739,2852,594,4395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61209"}],"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=61209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61230,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61209\/revisions\/61230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}