The number of\u00a0registered medical marijuana patients in Alberta doubled, and the number of doctors prescribing MMJ rose 50% in the first quarter of this year, indicating the drug is becoming more accessible to the province\u2019s 4.1 million people.<\/p>\n
The increases bode well for Canada\u2019s MMJ companies and offer a sneak preview of business prospects for the country\u2019s impending legalization of recreational marijuana<\/a>\u00a0next summer.<\/p>\n There were 329 doctors registered to prescribe medical cannabis at the end of 2016, and that number increased to 495 in the first three months of 2017, CBC News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The province\u2019s overall<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Alberta\u2019s medical marijuana patients double in first quarter<\/a> is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n
The number of\u00a0registered medical marijuana patients in Alberta doubled, and the number of doctors prescribing MMJ rose 50% in the first quarter of this year, indicating the drug is becoming more accessible to the province\u2019s 4.1 million people. The increases bode well for Canada\u2019s MMJ companies and offer a sneakContinue 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":[822,4,34,682],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229"}],"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=18229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18230,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229\/revisions\/18230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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