{"id":19212,"date":"2017-09-08T02:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T10:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/week-in-review-mmj-setback-in-congress-scotts-repositions-texas-cbd-takes-a-small-step\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T12:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:37:29","slug":"week-in-review-mmj-setback-in-congress-scotts-repositions-texas-cbd-takes-a-small-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/week-in-review-mmj-setback-in-congress-scotts-repositions-texas-cbd-takes-a-small-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review: MMJ setback in Congress, Scotts repositions, Texas CBD takes a small step"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Omar Sacirbey, Bart Schaneman and John Schroyer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medical marijuana safeguards suffer a setback in Congress, Scotts Miracle-Gro divests overseas to focus on North America opportunities \u2013 including MJ \u2013 and Texas approves a CBD producer.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry over the past week.<span id=\"more-74329\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>DC dings cannabis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The powerful U.S. House Committee on Rules\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/house-rules-committee-blocks-votes-medical-marijuana-protections\/\">rattled the marijuana industry<\/a>\u00a0when it blocked floor votes on key amendments that protect medical marijuana from federal interference.<\/p>\n<p>The maneuver doesn\u2019t kill the protections \u2013 they can still be kept alive by the Senate. But it underscores<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/week-review-mmj-setback-congress-scotts-repositions-texas-cbd-takes-small-step\/\">Week in Review: MMJ setback in Congress, Scotts repositions, Texas CBD takes a small step<\/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\/week-review-mmj-setback-congress-scotts-repositions-texas-cbd-takes-small-step\/\" target=\"_blank\">Week in Review: MMJ setback in Congress, Scotts repositions, Texas CBD takes a small step<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omar Sacirbey, Bart Schaneman and John Schroyer Medical marijuana safeguards suffer a setback in Congress, Scotts Miracle-Gro divests overseas to focus on North America opportunities \u2013 including MJ \u2013 and Texas approves a CBD producer. Here\u2019s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry over the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/week-in-review-mmj-setback-in-congress-scotts-repositions-texas-cbd-takes-a-small-step\/\">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":[136,1531,5,18,10,246,700,19,1532,1533],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212"}],"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=19212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19213,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions\/19213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}