{"id":20120,"date":"2017-10-11T14:52:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/louisiana-doctors-not-showing-much-interest-in-mmj-program\/"},"modified":"2017-10-12T00:37:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T08:37:25","slug":"louisiana-doctors-not-showing-much-interest-in-mmj-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/louisiana-doctors-not-showing-much-interest-in-mmj-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana doctors not showing much interest in MMJ program"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>As Louisiana\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/new-market-louisianas-mmj-program-offers-limited-opportunities-but-gains-momentum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical marijuana program<\/a> nears its launch, only two doctors have applied for permission to recommend the drug, raising questions about whether the state\u2019s MMJ system will need tweaking in order to establish a viable industry.<\/p>\n<p>One application for the permit required to recommend MMJ to patients has been approved for a Baton Rouge physician and the other application is under review, according to the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners.<\/p>\n<p>The pharmacist who sponsored the state\u2019s MMJ laws said he\u2019s not worried just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. Fred Mills hopes to see an uptick in permit<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/louisiana-doctors-not-showing-much-interest-mmj-program\/\">Louisiana doctors not showing much interest in MMJ program<\/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\/louisiana-doctors-not-showing-much-interest-mmj-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana doctors not showing much interest in MMJ program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Louisiana\u2019s medical marijuana program nears its launch, only two doctors have applied for permission to recommend the drug, raising questions about whether the state\u2019s MMJ system will need tweaking in order to establish a viable industry. One application for the permit required to recommend MMJ to patients has been<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/louisiana-doctors-not-showing-much-interest-in-mmj-program\/\">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":[4,732,201,1641,1642],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120"}],"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=20120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20121,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120\/revisions\/20121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}