{"id":19615,"date":"2017-09-22T02:20:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T10:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/22\/ontario-slams-door-on-dispensaries-but-marijuana-lounges-see-glimmer-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:39:07","slug":"ontario-slams-door-on-dispensaries-but-marijuana-lounges-see-glimmer-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/22\/ontario-slams-door-on-dispensaries-but-marijuana-lounges-see-glimmer-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario slams door on dispensaries, but marijuana lounges see glimmer of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Matt Lamers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the Ontario government slammed the door on marijuana retail entrepreneurs, the province left the door open \u2014 ever so slightly \u2014 for the eventual licensing of cannabis-consumption lounges.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-75349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ontario\u2019s cannabis legalization framework, released\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/ontario-launch-state-run-marijuana-outlets-shut-mmj-dispensaries\/\">earlier this month<\/a>, called for government-run stores, the shuttering of existing dispensaries and a limit on consumption to inside private homes.<\/p>\n<p>But the province included the possibility that lounges could have a legal future in Ontario, though probably not in time for the planned launch of adult-use sales next July.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the lounges would open a new line of business<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/ontario-slams-door-dispensaries-marijuana-lounges-see-glimmer-hope\/\">Ontario slams door on dispensaries, but marijuana lounges see glimmer of hope<\/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-slams-door-dispensaries-marijuana-lounges-see-glimmer-hope\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario slams door on dispensaries, but marijuana lounges see glimmer of hope<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Lamers After the Ontario government slammed the door on marijuana retail entrepreneurs, the province left the door open \u2014 ever so slightly \u2014 for the eventual licensing of cannabis-consumption lounges. Ontario\u2019s cannabis legalization framework, released\u00a0earlier this month, called for government-run stores, the shuttering of existing dispensaries and a<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/22\/ontario-slams-door-on-dispensaries-but-marijuana-lounges-see-glimmer-of-hope\/\">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":[914,682,1592,172,10,1636,828,7,1539],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19615"}],"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=19615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19616,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19615\/revisions\/19616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}