{"id":18693,"date":"2017-08-18T02:30:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/18\/week-in-review-maine-rec-cannabis-launch-delayed-maryland-mmj-grow-licensees-doj-vs-dea\/"},"modified":"2017-08-18T12:37:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:37:16","slug":"week-in-review-maine-rec-cannabis-launch-delayed-maryland-mmj-grow-licensees-doj-vs-dea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/18\/week-in-review-maine-rec-cannabis-launch-delayed-maryland-mmj-grow-licensees-doj-vs-dea\/","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review: Maine rec cannabis launch delayed, Maryland MMJ grow licensees &amp; DOJ vs. DEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Schroyer and Bart Schaneman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The launch of Maine\u2019s recreational marijuana industry is delayed, a deadline passes for Maryland\u2019s licensed medical cannabis growers, and the Department of Justice nixes a DEA decision on MJ research.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry over the past week.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-72867\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maine rec in doubt?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maine\u2019s adult-use cannabis industry <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/maine-will-miss-deadline-launch-recreational-cannabis-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won\u2019t launch until next summer<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 at the very earliest \u2013 simply because state regulators say they don\u2019t have enough time to craft rules and start licensing rec businesses.<\/p>\n<p>While delays in new markets aren\u2019t uncommon<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/week-review-maine-rec-cannabis-launch-delayed-doj-vs-dea-maryland-mmj-grow-licensees\/\">Week in Review: Maine rec cannabis launch delayed, Maryland MMJ grow licensees &amp; DOJ vs. DEA<\/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\/week-review-maine-rec-cannabis-launch-delayed-doj-vs-dea-maryland-mmj-grow-licensees\/\" target=\"_blank\">Week in Review: Maine rec cannabis launch delayed, Maryland MMJ grow licensees &amp; DOJ vs. DEA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Schroyer and Bart Schaneman The launch of Maine\u2019s recreational marijuana industry is delayed, a deadline passes for Maryland\u2019s licensed medical cannabis growers, and the Department of Justice nixes a DEA decision on MJ research. Here\u2019s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry over the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/18\/week-in-review-maine-rec-cannabis-launch-delayed-maryland-mmj-grow-licensees-doj-vs-dea\/\">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":[1239,5,1240,172,1241,18,861,10,844,1201,474,1242,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693"}],"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=18693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18694,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693\/revisions\/18694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}