{"id":18649,"date":"2017-08-17T02:30:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T10:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/17\/washington-state-rule-change-expands-business-options-for-marijuana-cultivators\/"},"modified":"2017-08-17T12:59:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:59:02","slug":"washington-state-rule-change-expands-business-options-for-marijuana-cultivators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/17\/washington-state-rule-change-expands-business-options-for-marijuana-cultivators\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington state rule change expands business options for marijuana cultivators"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Bart Schaneman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington state recently eased restrictions on how many producer licenses marijuana businesses can own, a\u00a0move that could lead to more competition, an uptick in mergers and acquisitions and possibly increased supply.<\/p>\n<p>Under the state\u2019s revised policy, business owners can up their licenses from one to three, effective immediately.<span id=\"more-72811\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But they must draw from the current pool of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/data.lcb.wa.gov\/stories\/s\/WSLCB-Marijuana-Dashboard\/hbnp-ia6v\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1,154 producer licenses<\/a>; no new permits have been created.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) originally planned to allow businesses up to three licenses to cultivate marijuana but tabled that scenario in the legal market\u2019s early<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/washington-state-marijuana-growers-can-multiple-licenses-spurring-potential-mergers\/\">Washington state rule change expands business options for marijuana cultivators<\/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\/washington-state-marijuana-growers-can-multiple-licenses-spurring-potential-mergers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington state rule change expands business options for marijuana cultivators<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bart Schaneman Washington state recently eased restrictions on how many producer licenses marijuana businesses can own, a\u00a0move that could lead to more competition, an uptick in mergers and acquisitions and possibly increased supply. Under the state\u2019s revised policy, business owners can up their licenses from one to three, effective<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/17\/washington-state-rule-change-expands-business-options-for-marijuana-cultivators\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,18,632,7,1216,1217,471],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18650,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649\/revisions\/18650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}