{"id":19868,"date":"2017-10-02T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/florida-struggling-to-keep-pace-with-mmj-patient-registrations\/"},"modified":"2017-10-03T00:46:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T08:46:53","slug":"florida-struggling-to-keep-pace-with-mmj-patient-registrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/florida-struggling-to-keep-pace-with-mmj-patient-registrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida struggling to keep pace with MMJ patient registrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s Office of Medical Marijuana Use is <a href=\"http:\/\/weartv.com\/news\/local\/patients-prescribed-medical-marijuana-experiencing-lengthy-wait\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dealing with a major patient backlog<\/a> which some stakeholders say is forcing patients to wait longer than the mandated 30 days to receive their MMJ cards.<\/p>\n<p>According to broadcaster WEAR-TV and the Miami Herald, the state health department is being \u201cflooded\u201d with MMJ registration applications, up to 3,000 pending at any given time, with staffers receiving about 1,300 calls a day from prospective patients.<\/p>\n<p>One physician who\u2019s recommending MMJ for patients estimated that the wait time is up to about seven weeks instead of 30 days, WEAR TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>As<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/florida-struggling-keep-pace-mmj-patient-registrations\/\">Florida struggling to keep pace with MMJ patient registrations<\/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-struggling-keep-pace-mmj-patient-registrations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Florida struggling to keep pace with MMJ patient registrations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s Office of Medical Marijuana Use is dealing with a major patient backlog which some stakeholders say is forcing patients to wait longer than the mandated 30 days to receive their MMJ cards. According to broadcaster WEAR-TV and the Miami Herald, the state health department is being \u201cflooded\u201d with MMJ<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/florida-struggling-to-keep-pace-with-mmj-patient-registrations\/\">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":[4,1058,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19868"}],"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=19868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19869,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19868\/revisions\/19869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}