{"id":61326,"date":"2019-10-16T08:46:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=61326"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:41","slug":"armstrong-legal-cannabis-celebrates-its-first-anniversary-in-canada-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/10\/armstrong-legal-cannabis-celebrates-its-first-anniversary-in-canada-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Legal cannabis celebrates its first anniversary in Canada: What\u2019s next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/legal-cannabis-celebrates-its-first-anniversary-in-canada-whats-next-124871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a> about this week&#8217;s anniversary of Canada&#8217;s recreational cannabis legalization and what&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This week marks the first anniversary of Canada\u2019s recreational cannabis legalization. It\u2019s an appropriate time to review what happened last year and consider what\u2019s coming next.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Legalization brought big changes for some folks. About 9,200 employees now work at cannabis producers, with thousands more at retailers. Unfortunately, company profits remain scarce and tax revenues are modest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By contrast, cannabis users are largely unchanged. In the nine months before legalization, an average of 14.9 per cent of Canadians reported using cannabis. That increased by only one-tenth, to 16.3 per cent, during the nine months after.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/legal-cannabis-celebrates-its-first-anniversary-in-canada-whats-next-124871\" 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 this week&#8217;s anniversary of Canada&#8217;s recreational cannabis legalization and what&#8217;s next.<\/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":[2852,594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61326"}],"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=61326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61327,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61326\/revisions\/61327"}],"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=61326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}