{"id":69419,"date":"2020-11-30T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=69419"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:02","slug":"armstrong-wrong-target-over-cannabis-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/11\/armstrong-wrong-target-over-cannabis-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Wrong target over cannabis shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, responded to a piece recently published by <em>The St. Catharines Standard<\/em> with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editors\/2020\/11\/26\/november-26-province-should-be-petitioned-in-cannabis-store-dispute-plus-other-niagara-letters-to-the-editor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter to the editor<\/a> discussing the limited powers citizens have to block the opening of stores selling recreational cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCalvin Poon\u2019s community interest is great. But he\u2019s wasting his time petitioning the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario to stop a cannabis shop opening.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ontario regulations forbid cannabis stores near schools. But absent extraordinary circumstances, AGCO has no other grounds to block a location. And there\u2019s nothing extraordinary about being near residences. That\u2019s a common business choice for selling products people consume mostly at home.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editors\/2020\/11\/26\/november-26-province-should-be-petitioned-in-cannabis-store-dispute-plus-other-niagara-letters-to-the-editor.html\" 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, responded to a piece recently published by the St. Catharines Standard with a letter to the editor discussing the limited powers citizens have to block the opening of stores selling recreational cannabis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6],"tags":[2852,594,4395,4301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69419"}],"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=69419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69425,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69419\/revisions\/69425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}