{"id":19025,"date":"2017-08-31T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/no-evidence-of-widespread-bank-crackdown-on-cannabis-advocacy-groups-observers-say\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:51:16","slug":"no-evidence-of-widespread-bank-crackdown-on-cannabis-advocacy-groups-observers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/no-evidence-of-widespread-bank-crackdown-on-cannabis-advocacy-groups-observers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"No evidence of widespread bank crackdown on cannabis advocacy groups, observers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Omar Sacirbey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A major bank\u2019s decision to close accounts tied to the Marijuana Policy Project and NORML put cannabis advocacy groups on high alert, with some fearing the start of a concerted attack on the MJ movement by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>But the groups say it appears those initial fears were overblown.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-73809\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The closures seem to have been isolated to PNC Bank, the nation\u2019s sixth-largest financial institution.<\/p>\n<p>In June, PNC pulled an account belonging to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/pnc-bank-shuts-marijuana-policy-projects-accounts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marijuana Policy Project (MPP)<\/a>, saying it \u201ccouldn\u2019t afford the risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A month later, the Pittsburgh-based bank &lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/pnc-shutters-marijuana-groups-ohio-bank-account\/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/marijuana-advocacy-groups-elude-banking-closures-fears-remain\/\">No evidence of widespread bank crackdown on cannabis advocacy groups, observers say<\/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-advocacy-groups-elude-banking-closures-fears-remain\/\" target=\"_blank\">No evidence of widespread bank crackdown on cannabis advocacy groups, observers say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omar Sacirbey A major bank\u2019s decision to close accounts tied to the Marijuana Policy Project and NORML put cannabis advocacy groups on high alert, with some fearing the start of a concerted attack on the MJ movement by the Trump administration. But the groups say it appears those initial<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/no-evidence-of-widespread-bank-crackdown-on-cannabis-advocacy-groups-observers-say\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1418,167,291,18,292,1419,1420,71,146,293,19,1421],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19025"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19026,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19025\/revisions\/19026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}