{"id":18073,"date":"2017-07-28T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/jamaica-receives-slew-of-medical-marijuana-business-applications\/"},"modified":"2017-07-28T12:40:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T20:40:35","slug":"jamaica-receives-slew-of-medical-marijuana-business-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/jamaica-receives-slew-of-medical-marijuana-business-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica receives slew of medical marijuana business applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Jamaica has received <a href=\"http:\/\/jis.gov.jm\/cannabis-licensing-authority-receives-236-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">236 business license applications<\/a> since opening the permit process last year.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 236 applications, two licenses have been granted but not issued because the winners have yet to pay their fees, according to Hyacinth Lightbourne, chair of Jamaica\u2019s Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA).<\/p>\n<p>Another\u00a044 applications have gotten conditional approval, according to the government-run Jamaica Information Service.<\/p>\n<p>Application numbers have grown steadily. Jamaican regulators <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/jamaica-receives-89-medical-cannabis-business-permit-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received 89 applications<\/a> through late October and <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/jamaica-grants-conditional-ok-for-three-medical-marijuana-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about 160<\/a> through February.<\/p>\n<p>Lightbourne told an MMJ conference in Kingston that Jamaica\u2019s licensing process takes about six<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/jamaica-receives-slew-medical-marijuana-business-applications\/\">Jamaica receives slew of medical marijuana business applications<\/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\/jamaica-receives-slew-medical-marijuana-business-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica receives slew of medical marijuana business applications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaica has received 236 business license applications since opening the permit process last year. Of the 236 applications, two licenses have been granted but not issued because the winners have yet to pay their fees, according to Hyacinth Lightbourne, chair of Jamaica\u2019s Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA). Another\u00a044 applications have gotten<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/jamaica-receives-slew-of-medical-marijuana-business-applications\/\">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":[4,50,900,284,246],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073"}],"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=18073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18074,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073\/revisions\/18074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}