{"id":19286,"date":"2017-09-11T11:13:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T19:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/11\/pennsylvania-medical-marijuana-licensing-process-faces-legal-tests\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:45:46","slug":"pennsylvania-medical-marijuana-licensing-process-faces-legal-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/11\/pennsylvania-medical-marijuana-licensing-process-faces-legal-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania medical marijuana licensing process faces legal tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania has two legal challenges to deal with regarding licensing decisions for hotly contested medical marijuana business permits.<\/p>\n<p>Two lawsuits were filed Friday against the state\u2019s Office of Medical Marijuana:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/business\/cannabis\/sparking-a-marijuana-war-rival-wants-pa-to-drop-grower-under-criminal-investigation-20170908.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BrightStar Biomedics<\/a>\u00a0is challenging the cultivation license given to Pennsylvania Medical Solutions, a subsidiary of Minnesota-based Vireo Health, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. BrightStar takes exception to the fact two former Vireo employees are under criminal investigation for <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/will-medical-marijuana-companys-past-haunt-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegedly smuggling marijuana oil<\/a> across state lines.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Keystone-ReLeaf.pdf\">Keystone ReLeaf<\/a> alleges the state\u2019s license application scoring was unfair and seeks an injunction to halt the licensing process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/pennsylvania-medical-marijuana-licensing-faces-legal-tests\/\">Pennsylvania medical marijuana licensing process faces legal tests<\/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\/pennsylvania-medical-marijuana-licensing-faces-legal-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania medical marijuana licensing process faces legal tests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania has two legal challenges to deal with regarding licensing decisions for hotly contested medical marijuana business permits. Two lawsuits were filed Friday against the state\u2019s Office of Medical Marijuana: BrightStar Biomedics\u00a0is challenging the cultivation license given to Pennsylvania Medical Solutions, a subsidiary of Minnesota-based Vireo Health, the Philadelphia Inquirer<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/11\/pennsylvania-medical-marijuana-licensing-process-faces-legal-tests\/\">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":[4,1566,5,1567,303,1568,1569,475],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286"}],"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=19286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19287,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286\/revisions\/19287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}