{"id":19336,"date":"2017-09-12T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T19:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/12\/british-columbia-premier-eyes-role-for-private-cannabis-retailers\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T20:37:00","slug":"british-columbia-premier-eyes-role-for-private-cannabis-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/12\/british-columbia-premier-eyes-role-for-private-cannabis-retailers\/","title":{"rendered":"British Columbia premier eyes role for private cannabis retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Premier John Horgan said British Columbia will be ready for cannabis legalization next summer and signaled private entrepreneurs may play a role in the retail sector \u2013 unlike in <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/ontario-launch-state-run-marijuana-outlets-shut-mmj-dispensaries\/\">Ontario, which favors a government-run model<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a radio interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/the-jon-mccomb-show\/john-horgan-has-got-big-plans-for-bc\">The Jon McComb Show<\/a>, Horgan suggested the province could carve out space for private dispensaries to participate in the legalized cannabis market.<\/p>\n<p>The premier said he wants to \u201cmake sure a distribution system is in place that benefits those who want to participate as entrepreneurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British Columbia, the third most-populous province in Canada, is home to a thriving<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/british-columbia-premier-eyes-role-private-cannabis-retailers\/\">British Columbia premier eyes role for private cannabis retailers<\/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\/british-columbia-premier-eyes-role-private-cannabis-retailers\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Columbia premier eyes role for private cannabis retailers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier John Horgan said British Columbia will be ready for cannabis legalization next summer and signaled private entrepreneurs may play a role in the retail sector \u2013 unlike in Ontario, which favors a government-run model. In a radio interview on The Jon McComb Show, Horgan suggested the province could carve<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/12\/british-columbia-premier-eyes-role-for-private-cannabis-retailers\/\">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":[4,178,682,1587,828],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336"}],"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=19336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19337,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336\/revisions\/19337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}