{"id":19027,"date":"2017-08-31T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/montanas-largest-city-bans-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:51:16","slug":"montanas-largest-city-bans-medical-marijuana-dispensaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/montanas-largest-city-bans-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana\u2019s largest city bans medical marijuana dispensaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Although medical marijuana advocates had hoped for an <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/montanas-medical-cannabis-industry-rebound\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">industry renaissance in Montana<\/a> after a ballot-box victory in November, at least one major municipality isn\u2019t having it.<\/p>\n<p>The Billings City Council voted to <a href=\"http:\/\/billingsgazette.com\/news\/local\/council-votes---to-push-medical-marijuana-dispensaries-outside\/article_ac9020c9-0753-57a5-961e-f68f3a9e86d6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ban medical cannabis dispensaries<\/a>, meaning the industry won\u2019t have a visible face in the most populous city in Montana, the Billings Gazette reported.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, the vote doesn\u2019t change a law that\u2019s already on the books, since the city enacted an ordinance five years ago to prohibit MMJ storefronts. And currently there are only two in existence, according to the Gazette.<\/p>\n<p>But those<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/montanas-largest-city-bans-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\/\">Montana\u2019s largest city bans medical marijuana dispensaries<\/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\/montanas-largest-city-bans-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">Montana\u2019s largest city bans medical marijuana dispensaries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although medical marijuana advocates had hoped for an industry renaissance in Montana after a ballot-box victory in November, at least one major municipality isn\u2019t having it. The Billings City Council voted to ban medical cannabis dispensaries, meaning the industry won\u2019t have a visible face in the most populous city in<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/montanas-largest-city-bans-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\/\">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":[4,172,10,1160,498],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027"}],"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=19027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19028,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions\/19028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}