{"id":18358,"date":"2017-08-07T07:19:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T15:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/07\/florida-bank-opens-its-arms-to-medical-marijuana-businesses\/"},"modified":"2017-08-07T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T20:48:10","slug":"florida-bank-opens-its-arms-to-medical-marijuana-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/07\/florida-bank-opens-its-arms-to-medical-marijuana-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida bank opens its arms to medical marijuana businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A bank has taken the unusual step of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mypalmbeachpost.com\/business\/bank-risks-federal-scrutiny-does-business-with-marijuana-growers\/3yTTeriCPfQMtwcVfDqnPM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embracing medical marijuana businesses<\/a> in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando-based First Green Bank has opened accounts and granted financial services to six of Florida\u2019s seven licensed MMJ producers, according to The Palm Beach Post.<\/p>\n<p>First Green Bank\u2019s services include accepting large cash deposits from marijuana firms and \u2013 without touching the money \u2013 transporting the funds straight from the business to a Federal Reserve location via armored trucks.<\/p>\n<p>The bank \u2013 which apparently is the only Florida financial institution working with medical cannabis businesses \u2013 has already taken in $30 million in<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/florida-bank-opens-arms-medical-marijuana-firms\/\">Florida bank opens its arms to medical marijuana businesses<\/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\/florida-bank-opens-arms-medical-marijuana-firms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Florida bank opens its arms to medical marijuana businesses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bank has taken the unusual step of embracing medical marijuana businesses in Florida. Orlando-based First Green Bank has opened accounts and granted financial services to six of Florida\u2019s seven licensed MMJ producers, according to The Palm Beach Post. First Green Bank\u2019s services include accepting large cash deposits from marijuana<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/07\/florida-bank-opens-its-arms-to-medical-marijuana-businesses\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1058,46,857,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18358"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18359,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18358\/revisions\/18359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}