{"id":18993,"date":"2017-08-30T07:06:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T15:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/canadas-cannabis-sector-doesnt-see-big-changes-from-new-minister\/"},"modified":"2017-08-30T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:56:29","slug":"canadas-cannabis-sector-doesnt-see-big-changes-from-new-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/canadas-cannabis-sector-doesnt-see-big-changes-from-new-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s cannabis sector doesn\u2019t see big changes from new minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Canada has a new health minister, but the marijuana industry doesn\u2019t expect to see a significant shift in the federal government\u2019s cannabis policy ahead of next year\u2019s launch of recreational MJ.<\/p>\n<p>New Brunswick MP Ginette Petitpas Taylor was named health minister in a cabinet shuffle this week, taking over for Jane Philpott.<\/p>\n<p>In her new role, Taylor will oversee the federal body that regulates the country\u2019s fast-growing medical cannabis sector as well as the rollout of Canada\u2019s legal recreational market next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Cam Battley, a board member of the Cannabis Canada trade association, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnn.ca\/video\/aurora-cannabis-exec-new-health-minister-s-balanced-background-key-for-legalization-process~1197386\">told Business News Network<\/a>\u00a0he expects the<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/canadas-cannabis-sector-not-expecting-big-changes-new-minister\/\">Canada\u2019s cannabis sector doesn\u2019t see big changes from new minister<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/canadas-cannabis-sector-not-expecting-big-changes-new-minister\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canada\u2019s cannabis sector doesn\u2019t see big changes from new minister<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has a new health minister, but the marijuana industry doesn\u2019t expect to see a significant shift in the federal government\u2019s cannabis policy ahead of next year\u2019s launch of recreational MJ. New Brunswick MP Ginette Petitpas Taylor was named health minister in a cabinet shuffle this week, taking over for<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/canadas-cannabis-sector-doesnt-see-big-changes-from-new-minister\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,682,1106,1396,1397,1398],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18994,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993\/revisions\/18994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}