{"id":19469,"date":"2017-09-18T08:54:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/18\/lsu-completes-deal-with-medical-marijuana-producer\/"},"modified":"2017-09-18T12:49:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T20:49:06","slug":"lsu-completes-deal-with-medical-marijuana-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/18\/lsu-completes-deal-with-medical-marijuana-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU completes deal with medical marijuana producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana State University has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/baton_rouge\/news\/business\/article_66d24d32-9c76-11e7-b03f-17f48901dcde.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">completed its contract<\/a> with a company that will grow medical marijuana and says production could begin by mid-2018.<\/p>\n<p>The LSU AgCenter said in announcing the arrangement Monday that its new partner, Las Vegas-based GB Sciences, will start renovating its production facility immediately, The Advocate reported.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was formalized <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/louisiana-university-cannabis-contractors-finances-called-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">despite a protest<\/a>\u00a0in which a competitor that was passed over for the contract questioned GB Sciences\u2019 financial stability.<\/p>\n<p>GB Sciences has <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/nevada-firm-picked-run-lsus-medical-marijuana-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed to pay<\/a> LSU $3.4 million over five years or 10% of gross receipts, whichever is higher.<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/louisiana-state-university-seals-deal-medical-marijuana-producer\/\">LSU completes deal with medical marijuana producer<\/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\/louisiana-state-university-seals-deal-medical-marijuana-producer\/\" target=\"_blank\">LSU completes deal with medical marijuana producer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana State University has completed its contract with a company that will grow medical marijuana and says production could begin by mid-2018. The LSU AgCenter said in announcing the arrangement Monday that its new partner, Las Vegas-based GB Sciences, will start renovating its production facility immediately, The Advocate reported. The<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/18\/lsu-completes-deal-with-medical-marijuana-producer\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167,4,5,1640,201,1237,1641,1642],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19469"}],"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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19470,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19469\/revisions\/19470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}