{"id":20812,"date":"2017-11-02T06:23:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/02\/ontario-unveils-proposed-law-to-regulate-recreational-marijuana\/"},"modified":"2017-11-02T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T20:55:09","slug":"ontario-unveils-proposed-law-to-regulate-recreational-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/02\/ontario-unveils-proposed-law-to-regulate-recreational-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario unveils proposed law to regulate recreational marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Ontario became the first province in Canada to introduce legislation to regulate the sale and distribution of recreational marijuana and, in doing so, promised to impose million-dollar fines on <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3836502\/ontario-marijuana-legislation\/\">privately owned<\/a> dispensaries that refuse to close their doors.<\/p>\n<p>The province\u2019s marijuana monopoly will be known as the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC), according to the proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontla.on.ca\/bills\/bills-files\/41_Parliament\/Session2\/b174_e.pdf\">Cannabis Act<\/a> legislation introduced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>To help the OCRC corner the market for adult-use marijuana, the Cannabis Act legislation stiffens penalties for individuals and corporations convicted of illegal sales or distribution of cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>Penalties include fines of up to $1 million for<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/ontario-unveils-proposed-law-regulate-recreational-marijuana\/\">Ontario unveils proposed law to regulate recreational marijuana<\/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-unveils-proposed-law-regulate-recreational-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario unveils proposed law to regulate recreational marijuana<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario became the first province in Canada to introduce legislation to regulate the sale and distribution of recreational marijuana and, in doing so, promised to impose million-dollar fines on privately owned dispensaries that refuse to close their doors. The province\u2019s marijuana monopoly will be known as the Ontario Cannabis Retail<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/02\/ontario-unveils-proposed-law-to-regulate-recreational-marijuana\/\">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":[4,682,2238,5,172,578,828],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812"}],"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=20812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20813,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812\/revisions\/20813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}