{"id":17639,"date":"2017-07-11T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/11\/puerto-rico-enacts-new-medical-cannabis-law\/"},"modified":"2017-07-11T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:45:49","slug":"puerto-rico-enacts-new-medical-cannabis-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/11\/puerto-rico-enacts-new-medical-cannabis-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico enacts new medical cannabis law"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rico\u00a0Gov. Ricardo Rossello has signed into law an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/wires\/afp\/article-4683058\/Puerto-Rico-enacts-medicinal-marijuana-law.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated medical marijuana statute<\/a>\u00a0after deciding a previous MMJ legalization measure wasn\u2019t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/las-mundiales\/2017\/07\/09\/473365\/el-gobernador-de-puerto-rico-firma-la-ley-del-cannabis-medicinal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thorough enough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 20 medical marijuana dispensaries are already operating on the island, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/weedmaps.com\/dispensaries\/in\/puerto-rico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a count on Weedmaps<\/a>. The dispensaries began <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/puerto-rico-medical-marijuana-dispensaries-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opening for business<\/a> in January\u00a0after the island\u2019s health department promulgated industry rules a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Rossello said the new law is intended to safeguard patient safety and also \u201chighlights the role of research and development of medicinal cannabis, which in turn will promote economic development (and) creation<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/puerto-rico-enacts-new-medical-cannabis-law\/\">Puerto Rico enacts new medical cannabis law<\/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\/puerto-rico-enacts-new-medical-cannabis-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">Puerto Rico enacts new medical cannabis law<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico\u00a0Gov. Ricardo Rossello has signed into law an\u00a0updated medical marijuana statute\u00a0after deciding a previous MMJ legalization measure wasn\u2019t thorough enough. Roughly 20 medical marijuana dispensaries are already operating on the island, according to a count on Weedmaps. The dispensaries began opening for business in January\u00a0after the island\u2019s health department<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/11\/puerto-rico-enacts-new-medical-cannabis-law\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,172,10,246],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17639"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17640,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17639\/revisions\/17640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}