{"id":18764,"date":"2017-08-22T09:28:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T17:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/22\/exhibitors-speakers-boycott-cannabis-expo-over-roger-stone\/"},"modified":"2017-08-22T13:01:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T21:01:21","slug":"exhibitors-speakers-boycott-cannabis-expo-over-roger-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/22\/exhibitors-speakers-boycott-cannabis-expo-over-roger-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibitors, speakers boycott cannabis expo over Roger Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Numerous exhibitors and speakers\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/news\/trump-advisor-roger-stones-participation-in-pot-conference-talks-sparks-boycott-8561433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are boycotting<\/a>\u00a0an upcoming cannabis conference in Los Angeles because Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, is a keynote speaker.<\/p>\n<p>T<span class=\"first-sen\">he Minority Cannabis Business Association (MCBA) is leading the protest against Stone\u2019s appearance at the Cannabis World Congress &amp; Business Exposition (CWCBE), scheduled for Sept.<\/span>\u00a013-15, L.A. Weekly reported. (Note: <em>Marijuana Business Daily<\/em>, parent company of MJBizDaily.com, also organizes marijuana conferences.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the newspaper, marijuana industry professionals who are challenging Stone\u2019s keynote role cite his:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHistory of racist rhetoric.\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ties to a Trump administration<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/exhibitors-speakers-boycott-marijuana-conference-roger-stone-keynote\/\">Exhibitors, speakers boycott cannabis expo over Roger Stone<\/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\/exhibitors-speakers-boycott-marijuana-conference-roger-stone-keynote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exhibitors, speakers boycott cannabis expo over Roger Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous exhibitors and speakers\u00a0are boycotting\u00a0an upcoming cannabis conference in Los Angeles because Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, is a keynote speaker. The Minority Cannabis Business Association (MCBA) is leading the protest against Stone\u2019s appearance at the Cannabis World Congress &amp; Business Exposition (CWCBE), scheduled for Sept.\u00a013-15, L.A.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/22\/exhibitors-speakers-boycott-cannabis-expo-over-roger-stone\/\">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":[167,4,28,1281,1282,218],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18764"}],"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=18764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18765,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18764\/revisions\/18765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}