{"id":18185,"date":"2017-08-01T02:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/01\/770-million-windfall-canadian-marijuana-companies-see-surge-in-new-investments\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:45:34","slug":"770-million-windfall-canadian-marijuana-companies-see-surge-in-new-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/01\/770-million-windfall-canadian-marijuana-companies-see-surge-in-new-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"$770 million windfall: Canadian marijuana companies see surge in new investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>By Matt Lamers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Canada\u2019s marijuana-related companies collectively raised more than $770 million in the first half of 2017 \u2013 a nearly 1,700% increase from a year earlier \u2013 as businesses prepare to ramp up production to meet growing demand at home and abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-71064\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The funding windfall comes as Canadian cannabis companies are preparing to boost supply in response to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The planned start of recreational cannabis sales in Canada next summer.<\/li>\n<li>The nation\u2019s booming medical marijuana market.<\/li>\n<li>Overseas demand for their products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The U.S. dollar-based funding total \u2013 provided to <em>Marijuana Business<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/funding-windfall-canadian-marijuana-companies-see-surge-new-investments\/\">$770 million windfall: Canadian marijuana companies see surge in new investments<\/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\/funding-windfall-canadian-marijuana-companies-see-surge-new-investments\/\" target=\"_blank\">0 million windfall: Canadian marijuana companies see surge in new investments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Lamers Canada\u2019s marijuana-related companies collectively raised more than $770 million in the first half of 2017 \u2013 a nearly 1,700% increase from a year earlier \u2013 as businesses prepare to ramp up production to meet growing demand at home and abroad. The funding windfall comes as Canadian cannabis<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/01\/770-million-windfall-canadian-marijuana-companies-see-surge-in-new-investments\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[957,33,845,34,682,958,959,461,858,960,5,961,18,962,963,964,766,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185"}],"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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18186,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185\/revisions\/18186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}