{"id":18842,"date":"2017-08-24T02:20:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/marijuana-cultivators-up-20-in-canada-as-industry-scrambles-to-meet-growing-demand\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T12:37:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T20:37:37","slug":"marijuana-cultivators-up-20-in-canada-as-industry-scrambles-to-meet-growing-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/marijuana-cultivators-up-20-in-canada-as-industry-scrambles-to-meet-growing-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana cultivators up 20% in Canada as industry scrambles to meet growing demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Matt Lamers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The number of licensed medical marijuana producers in Canada has jumped 20% over the past few months after the nation\u2019s top regulator dedicated more resources\u00a0to processing cultivator applications to meet growing demand for cannabis.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-73350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since revamping and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/canada-streamlines-medical-marijuana-licensing-process\/\">streamlining the application process<\/a>\u00a0in late May, Health Canada has awarded nine licenses, bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/canada-approves-two-medical-cannabis-producers\/\">the number of licensed producers (LPs) to 54<\/a>. Health Canada had issued six licenses in the previous five months.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in cultivators has positioned the industry to better meet the nation\u2019s growing demand for medical marijuana.\u00a0The number of registered MMJ patients has tripled<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/marijuana-cultivators-20-canada-industry-scrambles-meet-growing-demand\/\">Marijuana cultivators up 20% in Canada as industry scrambles to meet growing demand<\/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\/marijuana-cultivators-20-canada-industry-scrambles-meet-growing-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marijuana cultivators up 20% in Canada as industry scrambles to meet growing demand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Lamers The number of licensed medical marijuana producers in Canada has jumped 20% over the past few months after the nation\u2019s top regulator dedicated more resources\u00a0to processing cultivator applications to meet growing demand for cannabis. Since revamping and\u00a0streamlining the application process\u00a0in late May, Health Canada has awarded nine<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/marijuana-cultivators-up-20-in-canada-as-industry-scrambles-to-meet-growing-demand\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,178,682,5,18,846,825,827,1153,828,1295,1327,1088,1330],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842"}],"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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18843,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842\/revisions\/18843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}