{"id":20103,"date":"2017-10-11T02:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/we-lost-it-all-puerto-rico-medical-marijuana-businesses-assess-hurricane-damage\/"},"modified":"2017-10-11T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T20:46:52","slug":"we-lost-it-all-puerto-rico-medical-marijuana-businesses-assess-hurricane-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/we-lost-it-all-puerto-rico-medical-marijuana-businesses-assess-hurricane-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We lost it all\u2019: Puerto Rico medical marijuana businesses assess hurricane damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Bart Schaneman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico\u2019s medical marijuana industry, setting back its development at least six months \u2013 if not much longer \u2013 and causing millions of dollars in damage to MMJ businesses.<\/p>\n<p>No outdoor marijuana cultivation facilities survived, but some dispensaries are operating and patients who can access them are still buying.<span id=\"more-76630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the hurricane made landfall Sept. 20, winds reached speeds of up to 200<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>mph\u00a0accompanied by heavy rain that caused flash flooding.\u00a0The natural disaster is estimated to have killed at least 36 and\u00a0cost the\u00a0U.S. territory\u00a0$100 billion.<\/p>\n<p>It also wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico\u2019s fledgling MMJ<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/lost-puerto-rico-medical-marijuana-businesses-assess-hurricane-damage\/\">\u2018We lost it all\u2019: Puerto Rico medical marijuana businesses assess hurricane damage<\/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\/lost-puerto-rico-medical-marijuana-businesses-assess-hurricane-damage\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018We lost it all\u2019: Puerto Rico medical marijuana businesses assess hurricane damage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bart Schaneman Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico\u2019s medical marijuana industry, setting back its development at least six months \u2013 if not much longer \u2013 and causing millions of dollars in damage to MMJ businesses. No outdoor marijuana cultivation facilities survived, but some dispensaries are operating and patients who can<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/we-lost-it-all-puerto-rico-medical-marijuana-businesses-assess-hurricane-damage\/\">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":[5,1968,18,1969,246,1970,1971],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20103"}],"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=20103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20104,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20103\/revisions\/20104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}