{"id":18939,"date":"2017-08-29T02:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/29\/marylands-medical-marijuana-program-gains-steam-as-more-licenses-are-approved\/"},"modified":"2017-08-29T12:35:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:35:51","slug":"marylands-medical-marijuana-program-gains-steam-as-more-licenses-are-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/29\/marylands-medical-marijuana-program-gains-steam-as-more-licenses-are-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland\u2019s medical marijuana program gains steam as more licenses are approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Bart Schaneman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maryland\u2019s medical marijuana program, which has been plagued with delays since its inception in 2013, seems to be finally gaining momentum.<\/p>\n<p>In a positive sign to industry watchers, the state\u2019s Medical Cannabis Commission on Monday approved three more cultivation license holders to begin growing and licensed two processors and one testing lab.<span id=\"more-73633\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a significant step,\u201d Debby Miran,\u00a0a former Maryland MMJ commissioner and now a cannabis consultant in Baltimore, told <em>Marijuana Business Daily<\/em>. \u201cWithout getting past this step, heretofore we had one grower and no processors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maryland\u2019s medical marijuana\u00a0law was first approved in 2013 and<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/marylands-medical-marijuana-program-gains-steam-licenses-approved\/\">Maryland\u2019s medical marijuana program gains steam as more licenses are approved<\/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\/marylands-medical-marijuana-program-gains-steam-licenses-approved\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland\u2019s medical marijuana program gains steam as more licenses are approved<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bart Schaneman Maryland\u2019s medical marijuana program, which has been plagued with delays since its inception in 2013, seems to be finally gaining momentum. In a positive sign to industry watchers, the state\u2019s Medical Cannabis Commission on Monday approved three more cultivation license holders to begin growing and licensed two<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/29\/marylands-medical-marijuana-program-gains-steam-as-more-licenses-are-approved\/\">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":[5,1374,1375,474,1242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18939"}],"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=18939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18940,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18939\/revisions\/18940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}