{"id":17090,"date":"2017-06-15T09:32:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/rhode-island-gov-wants-to-triple-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T20:48:09","slug":"rhode-island-gov-wants-to-triple-medical-marijuana-dispensaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/rhode-island-gov-wants-to-triple-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island gov wants to triple medical marijuana dispensaries\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Rhode Island\u2019s governor has called for an increase in medical marijuana dispensaries in the state and a hike in licensing fees to generate another $1.5 million in revenue. Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo submitted a budget amendment June 9 calling for \u201cno less than six licensed compassion centers,\u201d the Providence Journal reported. The existing three centers each would be allowed to open a second retail-only location. However, those three dispensaries \u2013 in\u00a0Providence, Warwick and Portsmouth \u2013 have resisted a bill that would create additional MMJ businesses, arguing there\u2019s no demonstrated need for more dispensaries. Rhode Island has more than 16,000 MMJ &#8230; Rhode Island gov wants to triple medical marijuana dispensaries\u00a0 is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/rhode-island-gov-wants-triple-number-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhode Island gov wants to triple medical marijuana dispensaries\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhode Island\u2019s governor has called for an increase in medical marijuana dispensaries in the state and a hike in licensing fees to generate another $1.5 million in revenue. Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo submitted a budget amendment June 9 calling for \u201cno less than six licensed compassion centers,\u201d the Providence Journal<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/rhode-island-gov-wants-to-triple-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,172,174,10,173,175],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17091,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090\/revisions\/17091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}