{"id":19679,"date":"2017-09-25T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/25\/southern-u-picks-contractor-to-grow-medical-cannabis-in-louisiana\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T00:35:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T08:35:38","slug":"southern-u-picks-contractor-to-grow-medical-cannabis-in-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/25\/southern-u-picks-contractor-to-grow-medical-cannabis-in-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern U. picks contractor to grow medical cannabis in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Southern University has selected a vendor to run its medical marijuana program, moving Louisiana\u2019s MMJ industry a step closer to reality.<\/p>\n<p>Southern\u2019s Board of Supervisors chose Lafayette-based Advanced Biomedics to grow the marijuana for the Baton Rouge-based university, which will receive more than $6 million over five years from its cultivation partner.<\/p>\n<p>Under regulations established by the legislature in 2016, Southern and Louisiana State University are the only entities <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/new-market-louisianas-mmj-program-offers-limited-opportunities-but-gains-momentum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permitted to grow<\/a> medical cannabis for legal MMJ patients in the state.<\/p>\n<p>LSU completed its <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/louisiana-state-university-seals-deal-medical-marijuana-producer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cultivation contract <\/a>with Las Vegas-based GB Sciences earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/southern-u-picks-contractor-grow-medical-marijuana-louisiana\/\">Southern U. picks contractor to grow medical cannabis in Louisiana<\/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\/southern-u-picks-contractor-grow-medical-marijuana-louisiana\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southern U. picks contractor to grow medical cannabis in Louisiana<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern University has selected a vendor to run its medical marijuana program, moving Louisiana\u2019s MMJ industry a step closer to reality. Southern\u2019s Board of Supervisors chose Lafayette-based Advanced Biomedics to grow the marijuana for the Baton Rouge-based university, which will receive more than $6 million over five years from its<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/25\/southern-u-picks-contractor-to-grow-medical-cannabis-in-louisiana\/\">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":[1759,4,5,1640,201,1641,1642],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679"}],"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=19679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19680,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions\/19680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}