{"id":70046,"date":"2021-01-18T09:09:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T14:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=70046"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:00","slug":"armstrong-give-cannabis-producers-more-packaging-and-labelling-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/01\/armstrong-give-cannabis-producers-more-packaging-and-labelling-flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Give cannabis producers more packaging and labelling flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/give-cannabis-producers-more-packaging-and-labelling-flexibility-152727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the need for the Canadian government to give producers of legal cannabis more flexibility in the packaging and labelling of their products.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhile efforts to legalize recreational cannabis nationally have stalled in the\u00a0United States,\u00a0New Zealand,\u00a0Mexico\u00a0and\u00a0Israel, Canada\u2019s legal market continues to evolve.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Health Canada has recently been receiving suggestions\u00a0for revising its cannabis product regulations. Now it must decide what changes to make.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One priority should be\u00a0giving producers more packaging and labelling flexibility. This could help businesses build their reputations and help consumers find suitable products. It would also better support federal cannabis policy, as existing rules inadvertently encourage higher potency while sidelining\u00a0other aspects of quality.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/give-cannabis-producers-more-packaging-and-labelling-flexibility-152727\" 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 need for the Canadian government to give producers of legal cannabis more flexibility in the packaging and labelling of their products.<\/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":[594,9876,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70046"}],"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=70046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70048,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70046\/revisions\/70048"}],"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=70046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}