{"id":18386,"date":"2017-08-08T04:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/08\/national-lawmakers-group-deschedule-cannabis\/"},"modified":"2017-08-08T12:49:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T20:49:47","slug":"national-lawmakers-group-deschedule-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/08\/national-lawmakers-group-deschedule-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"National lawmakers group: Deschedule cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/comm.ncsl.org\/productfiles\/92221867\/Debate_Calendar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved a resolution<\/a>\u00a0urging the federal government to take marijuana off the list of scheduled drugs under the Controlled Substances Act.<\/p>\n<p>The group said the Controlled Substances Act should be amended \u2013 with the removal of marijuana \u2013 to make it easier for banks to serve cannabis businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of the nation\u2019s banks are <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/week-in-review-mj-industry-trademarks-cannabis-banking-oregon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">afraid to serve marijuana businesses<\/a>, fearing the federal government could revoke their banking licenses for working with companies that handle federally illegal substances.<\/p>\n<p>Descheduling would also allow states to determine marijuana policies<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/national-lawmakers-group-deschedule-cannabis\/\">National lawmakers group: Deschedule cannabis<\/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\/national-lawmakers-group-deschedule-cannabis\/\" target=\"_blank\">National lawmakers group: Deschedule cannabis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has\u00a0approved a resolution\u00a0urging the federal government to take marijuana off the list of scheduled drugs under the Controlled Substances Act. The group said the Controlled Substances Act should be amended \u2013 with the removal of marijuana \u2013 to make it easier for banks<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/08\/national-lawmakers-group-deschedule-cannabis\/\">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":[4,1074,1075,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386"}],"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=18386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18387,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386\/revisions\/18387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}