{"id":19417,"date":"2017-09-15T02:20:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T10:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/cannabis-industry-pushes-back-against-ontario-retail-blueprint-but-welcomes-the-clarity\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T12:36:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T20:36:14","slug":"cannabis-industry-pushes-back-against-ontario-retail-blueprint-but-welcomes-the-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/cannabis-industry-pushes-back-against-ontario-retail-blueprint-but-welcomes-the-clarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis industry pushes back against Ontario retail blueprint, but welcomes the clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Matt Lamers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s cannabis industry is pushing back against the Ontario government\u2019s blueprint for regulating marijuana, urging the province to reconsider its plan to handle recreational cannabis sales while shutting the private sector out of the retail rec business.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-74744\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While licensed producers welcomed the fact that the province provided clarity and made it easier to plan for the future, they hope Ontario will revise the proposed legislation when it\u2019s introduced this fall and give private companies a retail role.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario government\u2019s proposed regulatory framework calls for a state-run monopoly to sell adult-use cannabis online and in<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/cannabis-industry-pushes-back-ontario-retail-blueprint-welcome-clarity\/\">Cannabis industry pushes back against Ontario retail blueprint, but welcomes the clarity<\/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\/cannabis-industry-pushes-back-ontario-retail-blueprint-welcome-clarity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cannabis industry pushes back against Ontario retail blueprint, but welcomes the clarity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Lamers Canada\u2019s cannabis industry is pushing back against the Ontario government\u2019s blueprint for regulating marijuana, urging the province to reconsider its plan to handle recreational cannabis sales while shutting the private sector out of the retail rec business. While licensed producers welcomed the fact that the province provided<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/cannabis-industry-pushes-back-against-ontario-retail-blueprint-but-welcomes-the-clarity\/\">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":[682,461,960,5,172,18,138,766,1295,1088],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417"}],"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=19417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19418,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions\/19418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}