{"id":19386,"date":"2017-09-14T13:18:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T21:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/14\/mpp-opens-new-york-office-hires-ex-us-senator-as-senior-adviser\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T00:36:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T08:36:02","slug":"mpp-opens-new-york-office-hires-ex-us-senator-as-senior-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/14\/mpp-opens-new-york-office-hires-ex-us-senator-as-senior-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"MPP opens New York office, hires ex-US senator as senior adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A national marijuana industry advocacy group is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/ex-senator-opposed-smoking-pot-joins-marijuana-lobbying-group-article-1.3490962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opening a New York office<\/a>\u00a0in hopes of strengthening the state\u2019s medical marijuana program and, possibly, increasing business opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Marijuana Policy Project has hired former Republican U.S. Senator Alfonse D\u2019Amato to serve as a senior adviser for New York and added community organizer Landon Dais to serve as political director in the Empire State, according to the New York Daily News.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">D\u2019Amato \u2013 a U.S. senator from 1981 to \u201999 \u2013 told the newspaper that MPP\u2019s agenda in New York includes lobbying for a bill to make medical marijuana available<\/span><\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/mpp-opens-new-york-office-hires-former-u-s-senator-senior-adviser\/\">MPP opens New York office, hires ex-US senator as senior adviser<\/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\/mpp-opens-new-york-office-hires-former-u-s-senator-senior-adviser\/\" target=\"_blank\">MPP opens New York office, hires ex-US senator as senior adviser<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national marijuana industry advocacy group is\u00a0opening a New York office\u00a0in hopes of strengthening the state\u2019s medical marijuana program and, possibly, increasing business opportunities. Marijuana Policy Project has hired former Republican U.S. Senator Alfonse D\u2019Amato to serve as a senior adviser for New York and added community organizer Landon Dais<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/14\/mpp-opens-new-york-office-hires-ex-us-senator-as-senior-adviser\/\">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":[1612,4,292,294,972],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19386"}],"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=19386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19387,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19386\/revisions\/19387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}