{"id":20952,"date":"2017-11-07T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/07\/manitoba-gives-private-sector-a-retail-role-in-recreational-marijuana\/"},"modified":"2017-11-08T00:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T08:42:51","slug":"manitoba-gives-private-sector-a-retail-role-in-recreational-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/07\/manitoba-gives-private-sector-a-retail-role-in-recreational-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba gives private sector a retail role in recreational marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Manitoba became the first province in Canada to carve out a space for the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gov.mb.ca\/news\/index.html?item=42491&amp;posted=2017-11-07\">private sector<\/a> to participate in recreational marijuana sales, unveiling a \u201chybrid\u201d model that gives entrepreneurs and the public sector a role.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling Progressive Conservative party resisted pressure from public-sector unions to hand marijuana sales exclusively to civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>The Manitoba government will soon issue a request for proposals from applicants seeking to operate privately owned retail locations once adult-use sales begin next year.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for submissions is Dec. 22, with initial locations to open July 2. (The federal government plans to legalize adult-use<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/manitoba-gives-private-sector-retail-role-rec-marijuana\/\">Manitoba gives private sector a retail role in 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\/manitoba-gives-private-sector-retail-role-rec-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manitoba gives private sector a retail role in recreational marijuana<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manitoba became the first province in Canada to carve out a space for the private sector to participate in recreational marijuana sales, unveiling a \u201chybrid\u201d model that gives entrepreneurs and the public sector a role. The ruling Progressive Conservative party resisted pressure from public-sector unions to hand marijuana sales exclusively<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/07\/manitoba-gives-private-sector-a-retail-role-in-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":[1906,4,682,2305,2306,172,718,2307,825,828,2308,2309],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952"}],"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=20952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20953,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952\/revisions\/20953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}