{"id":18069,"date":"2017-07-28T10:09:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T18:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/ma-governor-signs-recreational-marijuana-program-into-law\/"},"modified":"2017-07-28T12:40:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T20:40:35","slug":"ma-governor-signs-recreational-marijuana-program-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/ma-governor-signs-recreational-marijuana-program-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"MA governor signs recreational marijuana program into law"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts Gov. Charles Baker on Friday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2017\/07\/28\/baker-signs-marijuana-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed into law a recreational marijuana bill<\/a>\u00a0that will allow the state to launch an adult-use program approved by voters, and an hour later, the first members of the Cannabis Advisory Board were appointed.<\/p>\n<p>The state legislature <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/massachusetts-lawmakers-strike-recreational-cannabis-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed a bill<\/a>\u00a0last week that\u00a0modifies the voter-backed law passed in November.<\/p>\n<p>Baker opposed legalization but has vowed to carry out the will of the voters to legalize adult-use marijuana. Massachusetts is targeting a July 2018 launch date for the program.<\/p>\n<p>After the governor signed the bill,\u00a0state Treasurer Deb Goldberg announced &lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/news\/2017\/07\/28\/these-five-people-will-help-oversee-mass.html&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/governor-signs-massachusetts-recreational-marijuana-program-law\/\">MA governor signs recreational marijuana program into 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\/governor-signs-massachusetts-recreational-marijuana-program-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">MA governor signs recreational marijuana program into law<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Gov. Charles Baker on Friday\u00a0signed into law a recreational marijuana bill\u00a0that will allow the state to launch an adult-use program approved by voters, and an hour later, the first members of the Cannabis Advisory Board were appointed. The state legislature passed a bill\u00a0last week that\u00a0modifies the voter-backed law passed<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/ma-governor-signs-recreational-marijuana-program-into-law\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,898,65,25,6,171],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18070,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069\/revisions\/18070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}