{"id":19232,"date":"2017-09-08T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/ontario-to-launch-state-run-retail-marijuana-outlets\/"},"modified":"2017-09-09T00:46:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T08:46:51","slug":"ontario-to-launch-state-run-retail-marijuana-outlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/ontario-to-launch-state-run-retail-marijuana-outlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario to launch state-run retail marijuana outlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Marijuana will be sold in Ontario through a chain of government-run stores,\u00a0all existing medical cannabis dispensaries will be closed, and consumption will be limited to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/queenspark\/2017\/09\/08\/lcbo-will-run-150-standalone-marijuana-stores-when-weed-is-legalized.html\">private homes<\/a>, Ontario\u2019s Liberal government said Friday in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/mag\/en\/2017\/09\/ontario-releases-safe-and-sensible-framework-to-manage-federal-legalization-of-cannabis.html\">announcing<\/a> the province\u2019s framework governing recreational MJ.<\/p>\n<p>The measures effectively\u00a0shut the door to private businesses in the retail space and will make it more difficult for entrepreneurs to get a slice of the legalized cannabis sector when recreational legalization is set to come into force next summer.<\/p>\n<p>The government hopes to have 40 cannabis outlets by July 2018, 80 by July 2019 and 150 up<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/ontario-launch-state-run-marijuana-outlets-shut-mmj-dispensaries\/\">Ontario to launch state-run retail marijuana outlets<\/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\/ontario-launch-state-run-marijuana-outlets-shut-mmj-dispensaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario to launch state-run retail marijuana outlets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana will be sold in Ontario through a chain of government-run stores,\u00a0all existing medical cannabis dispensaries will be closed, and consumption will be limited to private homes, Ontario\u2019s Liberal government said Friday in announcing the province\u2019s framework governing recreational MJ. The measures effectively\u00a0shut the door to private businesses in the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/ontario-to-launch-state-run-retail-marijuana-outlets\/\">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\/19232"}],"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=19232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19233,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19232\/revisions\/19233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}