{"id":5641,"date":"2014-03-31T19:40:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2014-03-31T19:40:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T11:40:57","slug":"some-facts-and-figures-on-medical-marijuana-subject-to-new-rules-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/31\/some-facts-and-figures-on-medical-marijuana-subject-to-new-rules-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Some facts and figures on medical marijuana, subject to new rules Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5642\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/medical-marijuana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5642\" alt=\"Wikipedia photo\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/medical-marijuana.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/medical-marijuana.jpg 277w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/medical-marijuana-138x300.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8211; Facts and figures on medical marijuana in Canada, which is subject to new rules on Tuesday that require patients to acquire their pot from government-approved producers rather than home-grown supplies. (A temporary Federal Court injunction has delayed full implementation of the new regime until a legal hearing.)<\/p>\n<p>Number of authorizations to possess under the old rules: 37,800<\/p>\n<p>Patients authorized to grow for themselves: 25,000<\/p>\n<p>People designated to grow for someone else: 3,900<\/p>\n<p>Estimated number of home-grown plants under the old system: 3.3 million<\/p>\n<p>Price of dried marijuana, per gram, when purchased directly from Health Canada under the old rules: $5<\/p>\n<p>Number of commercial producers currently licensed under the new regime: 12<\/p>\n<p>Number of applications to Health Canada, as of early February, to become a licensed producer: 454, with about 25 new applications coming in each week<\/p>\n<p>Expected price of dried marijuana, per gram, under the new rules: Varies among producers and their individual products, but expected to average about $8 initially.<\/p>\n<p>Projected total additional cost to all approved patients as a result of the new system: $166 million a year for 10 years<\/p>\n<p>Projection of number of medical marijuana patients by 2024: Up to 450,000<\/p>\n<p>Sales projections for the new industry by 2024: $1.3 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: Health Canada)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8211; Facts and figures on medical marijuana in Canada, which is subject to new rules on Tuesday that require &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1517],"class_list":["post-5641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-medical-marijuana","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}