{"id":64240,"date":"2020-02-26T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=64240"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:13","slug":"armstrong-why-is-cannabis-so-expensive-in-some-provinces-dont-ask-statistics-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/02\/armstrong-why-is-cannabis-so-expensive-in-some-provinces-dont-ask-statistics-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Why is cannabis so expensive in some provinces? Don\u2019t ask Statistics Canada."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, had a piece published in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-is-cannabis-so-expensive-in-some-provinces-dont-ask-statistics-canada-132334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> Wednesday, Feb. 26 about government statistics not providing any reliable insight on why weed prices, including cannabis oil, varying widely across Canada following legalization.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;To evaluate cannabis legalization\u2019s progress and success, Canadians need good information about legal product sales.\u00a0Unfortunately, most provincial cannabis agencies keep results overly secret. And some publicly available estimates lack precision.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One example of cannabis agency secrecy made the news last week. An investigation found cannabis oil prices vary wildly\u00a0between provinces.\u00a0Inter-provincial price differences exceeded 50 per cent for half the products surveyed. The report couldn\u2019t explain the &#8216;fishy&#8217; differences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But it\u2019s no secret that legal pot costs more in, say, Ontario than Qu\u00e9bec. Ontario\u2019s cannabis agency marks-up prices by triple what Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s more profitable agency does.\u00a0We can see this by analyzing their 2018-19 financial statements.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-is-cannabis-so-expensive-in-some-provinces-dont-ask-statistics-canada-132334\">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 in The Conversation Wednesday, Feb. 26 about government statistics not providing any reliable insight on why weed prices, including cannabis oil, varying widely across Canada following legalization.<\/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":[3327,594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64240"}],"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=64240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64241,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64240\/revisions\/64241"}],"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=64240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}