{"id":19860,"date":"2017-10-02T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T23:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/many-mmj-patients-in-new-york-still-buying-from-black-market\/"},"modified":"2017-10-03T00:46:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T08:46:52","slug":"many-mmj-patients-in-new-york-still-buying-from-black-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/many-mmj-patients-in-new-york-still-buying-from-black-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Many MMJ patients in New York still buying from black market"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s medical cannabis program has been hard-pressed to prove it\u2019s a viable setup, and those issues apparently are continuing with prospective patients <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2017\/09\/costly_medical_marijuana_pushe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still relying on black-market MMJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A combination of high product costs, bureaucratic red tape and the easy availability of cannabis flower on the street has added up to an ongoing system where many patients turn to street dealers for medical marijuana flower as opposed to high-priced extract products available at New York dispensaries, the Staten Island Advance reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people that go to a dispensary go once or twice and never go back,\u201d Landon<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/many-new-york-medical-marijuana-patients-still-buying-black-market\/\">Many MMJ patients in New York still buying from black market<\/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\/many-new-york-medical-marijuana-patients-still-buying-black-market\/\" target=\"_blank\">Many MMJ patients in New York still buying from black market<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York\u2019s medical cannabis program has been hard-pressed to prove it\u2019s a viable setup, and those issues apparently are continuing with prospective patients still relying on black-market MMJ. A combination of high product costs, bureaucratic red tape and the easy availability of cannabis flower on the street has added up<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/many-mmj-patients-in-new-york-still-buying-from-black-market\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,172,295,294],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19860"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19861,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19860\/revisions\/19861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}