{"id":19503,"date":"2017-09-19T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/19\/west-virginia-seeks-2-million-to-start-medical-cannabis-program\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T00:37:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T08:37:58","slug":"west-virginia-seeks-2-million-to-start-medical-cannabis-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/19\/west-virginia-seeks-2-million-to-start-medical-cannabis-program\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia seeks $2 million to start medical cannabis program"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia regulators are anticipating the state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvgazettemail.com\/news-politics\/20170918\/dhhr-wv-medical-marijuana-law-will-need-2-million-in-upfront-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will need about $2 million<\/a> to launch its medical marijuana program.<\/p>\n<p>State health officer Dr. Rahul Gupta told both the state Senate and the House of Delegates the program could potentially be funded through an \u201cinternal loan,\u201d the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The biggest portion of the program\u2019s expected startup costs is the $700,000 West Virginia plans to invest in a seed-to-sale tracking system, according to the newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once the MMJ program is up and running \u2013 mid-2019 is the target date for <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/week-review-massachusetts-rec-cannabis-delay-denver-social-clubs-west-virginia-mmj-advisers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sales<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/west-virginia-seeks-2-million-start-medical-cannabis-program\/\">West Virginia seeks $2 million to start medical cannabis program<\/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\/west-virginia-seeks-2-million-start-medical-cannabis-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">West Virginia seeks  million to start medical cannabis program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia regulators are anticipating the state will need about $2 million to launch its medical marijuana program. State health officer Dr. Rahul Gupta told both the state Senate and the House of Delegates the program could potentially be funded through an \u201cinternal loan,\u201d the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. The biggest<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/19\/west-virginia-seeks-2-million-to-start-medical-cannabis-program\/\">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":[4,10,1659,456],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503"}],"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=19503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19504,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions\/19504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}