{"id":7242,"date":"2018-04-25T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=bcdaa55d2f7bedbf73ee62769356c39b"},"modified":"2018-04-25T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T19:31:07","slug":"b-c-set-to-introduce-pot-laws-but-years-of-fine-tuning-likely-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/25\/b-c-set-to-introduce-pot-laws-but-years-of-fine-tuning-likely-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. set to introduce pot laws, but years of fine tuning likely, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA &#8212; British Columbia&#8217;s solicitor general says the province&#8217;s pending recreational marijuana legislation will be more evolutionary than set in stone.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Farnworth says additional government regulations, expected to be introduced Thursday, will form a framework that will require ongoing fine tuning as the country adapts to legalized pot this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The B.C. government has already announced that marijuana sales will be allowed through both public and private stores to buyers who are at least 19 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers will be prohibited from selling marijuana in stores that also sell alcohol and cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>Farnworth says the upcoming legislation he introduces will not include a definitive pricing policy.<\/p>\n<p>B.C. is one of the last provinces in Canada to table its recreational marijuana legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA &mdash; British Columbia&rsquo;s solicitor general says the province&rsquo;s pending recreational marijuana legislation will be more evolutionary than set in stone. Mike Farnworth says additional government regulations, expected to be introduced Thursday, will form a framework that will require ongoing fine tuning as the country adapts to legalized pot this summer. The B.C. government has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7243,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242\/revisions\/7243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}