{"id":97371,"date":"2024-11-18T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=97371"},"modified":"2024-11-18T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T22:12:56","slug":"opinion-michael-armstrong-discusses-cannabis-industry-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/11\/opinion-michael-armstrong-discusses-cannabis-industry-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Michael Armstrong discusses cannabis industry trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-title\">Associate Professor of Operations Research Michael Armstrong wrote a piece recently published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.growopportunity.ca\/ontario-cannabis-retail-a-2023-2024-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grow Opportunity<\/a> discussing challenges faced by the retail cannabis industry since legalization in October 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the six years since Canada legalized recreational cannabis in October 2018, Ontario\u2019s cannabis retailers have had a wild ride. Long waits for store licensing were followed by several years of rapid expansion and then a struggle for profitability.<\/p>\n<p>Last year was tough for many store owners, and the next one might be worse. But the provincial treasury is doing fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.growopportunity.ca\/ontario-cannabis-retail-a-2023-2024-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grow Opportunity website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Operations Research Michael Armstrong wrote a piece recently published in Grow Magazine discussing trends in recreational cannabis sales since it was legalized in October 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6],"tags":[2852,594,4395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97371"}],"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=97371"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97408,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97371\/revisions\/97408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}