{"id":19172,"date":"2017-09-07T06:25:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T14:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/prince-edward-island-weighs-government-run-cannabis-stores\/"},"modified":"2017-09-07T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:58:45","slug":"prince-edward-island-weighs-government-run-cannabis-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/prince-edward-island-weighs-government-run-cannabis-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Edward Island weighs government-run cannabis stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Another Canadian province is signaling that recreational marijuana could be sold through a government-run monopoly, which would severely curtail business opportunities for entrepreneurs wanting a piece of the retail pie.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Edward Island Premier Wade MacLauchlan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/prince-edward-island\/pei-marijuana-sales-1.4275194\">told CBC News<\/a> that his province is considering stand-alone, government-run stores for the sale of adult-use cannabis versus privately owned retail outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Neighboring New Brunswick is also leaning toward a <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/new-brunswick-task-force-backs-government-run-cannabis-stores\/\">government-run marijuana monopol<\/a>y, while in Quebec, a forum of experts commissioned by the province concluded that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/quebec-consult-public-recreational-cannabis-legalization\/\">a monopoly is the option<\/a> that offers the best guarantees for achieving public health and<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/prince-edward-island-premier-weighs-government-run-cannabis-stores\/\">Prince Edward Island weighs government-run cannabis stores<\/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\/prince-edward-island-premier-weighs-government-run-cannabis-stores\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Edward Island weighs government-run cannabis stores<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Canadian province is signaling that recreational marijuana could be sold through a government-run monopoly, which would severely curtail business opportunities for entrepreneurs wanting a piece of the retail pie. Prince Edward Island Premier Wade MacLauchlan told CBC News that his province is considering stand-alone, government-run stores for the sale<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/prince-edward-island-weighs-government-run-cannabis-stores\/\">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":[4,682,172],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19172"}],"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=19172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19173,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19172\/revisions\/19173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}