{"id":19029,"date":"2017-08-31T02:20:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T10:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/canada-needs-to-expand-recreational-marijuana-products-qa-with-tilray-ceo-brendan-kennedy\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:51:16","slug":"canada-needs-to-expand-recreational-marijuana-products-qa-with-tilray-ceo-brendan-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/canada-needs-to-expand-recreational-marijuana-products-qa-with-tilray-ceo-brendan-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada needs to expand recreational marijuana products: Q&amp;A with Tilray CEO Brendan Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Matt Lamers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CEO of one of Canada\u2019s fast-growing marijuana companies has a piece of advice for the federal government: Permit a wider variety of products beyond buds and oils when the recreational market launches next year.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-72996\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brendan Kennedy, CEO of British Columbia-based Tilray, said Canadian regulators need to recognize the popularity of edibles and other products in places such as the United States while preparing for next summer\u2019s planned rollout of recreational marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, only flower and extracts are allowed for sale as MMJ in Canada. Looking ahead, the federal government is expected to favor flower<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/canada-needs-expand-rec-marijuana-products-qa-tilray-ceo-brendan-kennedy\/\">Canada needs to expand recreational marijuana products: Q&amp;A with Tilray CEO Brendan Kennedy<\/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\/canada-needs-expand-rec-marijuana-products-qa-tilray-ceo-brendan-kennedy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canada needs to expand recreational marijuana products: Q&amp;A with Tilray CEO Brendan Kennedy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Lamers The CEO of one of Canada\u2019s fast-growing marijuana companies has a piece of advice for the federal government: Permit a wider variety of products beyond buds and oils when the recreational market launches next year. Brendan Kennedy, CEO of British Columbia-based Tilray, said Canadian regulators need to<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/canada-needs-to-expand-recreational-marijuana-products-qa-with-tilray-ceo-brendan-kennedy\/\">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":[1422,34,682,5,578,1205,18,10,1088],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19029"}],"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=19029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19030,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19029\/revisions\/19030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}