{"id":18274,"date":"2017-08-03T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/03\/maryland-rejects-special-session-to-boost-medical-cannabis-diversity\/"},"modified":"2017-08-03T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:38:33","slug":"maryland-rejects-special-session-to-boost-medical-cannabis-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/03\/maryland-rejects-special-session-to-boost-medical-cannabis-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland rejects special session to boost medical cannabis diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Presiding lawmakers in Maryland\u2019s General Assembly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/politics\/bs-md-special-session-medical-marijuana-20170731-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have rejected<\/a>\u00a0a request from black lawmakers to hold a special legislative session that would have tried to address allegations that African-Americans and other minorities are not fairly represented in the state\u2019s new medical marijuana industry.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Senate President Thomas Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael Busch said they would support \u201cemergency legislation\u201d to expand the marijuana industry when lawmakers reconvene for their annual legislative session in early 2018, the Baltimore Sun reported.<\/p>\n<p>Miller had floated the idea of a special session earlier this year, but that idea died when Busch had<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/maryland-rejects-special-session-boost-medical-cannabis-diversity\/\">Maryland rejects special session to boost medical cannabis diversity<\/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\/maryland-rejects-special-session-boost-medical-cannabis-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland rejects special session to boost medical cannabis diversity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presiding lawmakers in Maryland\u2019s General Assembly have rejected\u00a0a request from black lawmakers to hold a special legislative session that would have tried to address allegations that African-Americans and other minorities are not fairly represented in the state\u2019s new medical marijuana industry. Instead, Senate President Thomas Mike Miller and House Speaker<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/03\/maryland-rejects-special-session-to-boost-medical-cannabis-diversity\/\">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":[4,487,10,443,474],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274"}],"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=18274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18275,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions\/18275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}