{"id":18137,"date":"2017-07-31T09:18:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T17:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/31\/maryland-probes-possible-ethics-violations-in-mmj-licensing-process\/"},"modified":"2017-07-31T12:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T20:41:03","slug":"maryland-probes-possible-ethics-violations-in-mmj-licensing-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/31\/maryland-probes-possible-ethics-violations-in-mmj-licensing-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland probes possible ethics violations in MMJ licensing process"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Maryland regulators are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/marijuana-experts-scored-prospective-md-pot-businesses-some-had-ties-to-them\/2017\/07\/30\/8da40b10-6ca3-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html?utm_term=.e2995beb9363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigating potential conflicts of interest<\/a> that occurred during the state\u2019s application process for medical marijuana cultivation, extraction and dispensary licenses, The Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, some independent reviewers hired to examine medical cannabis applications had ties to businesses bidding for MMJ licenses, The Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest setback for a medical cannabis program that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/maryland-court-medical-marijuana-licensing-process-continue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slowed by lawsuits<\/a> alleging cultivation application reviewers didn\u2019t follow selection rules as well as criticism that regulators <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/diversity-medical-marijuana-licensing-qa-maryland-applicant-greg-daniel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed to include<\/a> a sufficient number of minority owned businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/md-probes-ethics-violations-medical-marijuana-application-process\/\">Maryland probes possible ethics violations in MMJ licensing process<\/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\/md-probes-ethics-violations-medical-marijuana-application-process\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland probes possible ethics violations in MMJ licensing process<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland regulators are investigating potential conflicts of interest that occurred during the state\u2019s application process for medical marijuana cultivation, extraction and dispensary licenses, The Washington Post reported. In fact, some independent reviewers hired to examine medical cannabis applications had ties to businesses bidding for MMJ licenses, The Washington Post reported.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/31\/maryland-probes-possible-ethics-violations-in-mmj-licensing-process\/\">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":[4,927,487,284,443,474],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137"}],"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=18137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18138,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions\/18138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}