{"id":19862,"date":"2017-10-02T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/florida-will-delay-awarding-five-new-medical-cannabis-licenses\/"},"modified":"2017-10-03T00:46:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T08:46:52","slug":"florida-will-delay-awarding-five-new-medical-cannabis-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/florida-will-delay-awarding-five-new-medical-cannabis-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida will delay awarding five new medical cannabis licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s medical marijuana regulators will <a href=\"http:\/\/sunshinestatenews.com\/story\/state-miss-deadline-new-medical-marijuana-licenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">miss their deadline<\/a> to award five more MMJ business licenses.<\/p>\n<p>A statute passed in June required the state\u2019s MMJ regulators to issue five new medical marijuana licenses by Aug. 3 and an additional five by Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p>The first five were awarded on time, but the others will be delayed for an undetermined period, Sunshine State News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Florida\u2019s Office of Medical Marijuana Use (OMMU) blamed the missed deadline on Hurricane Irma and a lawsuit filed by an African-American farmer, according to the news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>In his lawsuit, the<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/florida-will-delay-awarding-five-new-medical-cannabis-licenses\/\">Florida will delay awarding five new medical cannabis licenses<\/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\/florida-will-delay-awarding-five-new-medical-cannabis-licenses\/\" target=\"_blank\">Florida will delay awarding five new medical cannabis licenses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s medical marijuana regulators will miss their deadline to award five more MMJ business licenses. A statute passed in June required the state\u2019s MMJ regulators to issue five new medical marijuana licenses by Aug. 3 and an additional five by Oct. 3. The first five were awarded on time, but<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/florida-will-delay-awarding-five-new-medical-cannabis-licenses\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1846,1847,4,5,172,487,388,46,284],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19862"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19863,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19862\/revisions\/19863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}