{"id":2771,"date":"2018-01-23T13:43:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2018-01-23T13:43:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:43:51","slug":"legalized-marijuana-presents-opportunity-of-a-lifetime-for-canadian-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/01\/23\/legalized-marijuana-presents-opportunity-of-a-lifetime-for-canadian-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Legalized marijuana presents opportunity of a lifetime for Canadian entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Entrepreneurial Law article discusses how regulation can be a burden on entrepreneurs as well as an opportunity. This made me think about the legalization of marijuana in Canada. Due to its illegal nature, marijuana sales require occur on the black market. Over the summer, my firm dealt with many entrepreneurs interested in navigating Canada&#8217;s new marijuana legislation. They wanted to use the opportunity provided by a changing law to enter an industry estimated at $23 Billion. Based on the article, I am interested to see if the legislation will enable or hurt entrepreneurs as they attempt to move away from the black market and into a regulated industry similar to alcohol sales in Canada. The article below discusses the major opportunity this change in legislation provides entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/canada-cannabis-greenrush-1.4383010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Entrepreneurial Law article discusses how regulation can be a burden on entrepreneurs as well as an opportunity. This made me think about the legalization of marijuana in Canada. Due to its illegal nature, marijuana sales require occur on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/01\/23\/legalized-marijuana-presents-opportunity-of-a-lifetime-for-canadian-entrepreneurs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2871,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}