{"id":20350,"date":"2017-10-18T11:03:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T19:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/18\/sessions-backs-marijuana-research-but-balks-at-expanding-it\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T12:41:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T20:41:46","slug":"sessions-backs-marijuana-research-but-balks-at-expanding-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/18\/sessions-backs-marijuana-research-but-balks-at-expanding-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Sessions backs marijuana research, but balks at expanding it"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>During testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/10\/18\/jeff-sessions-medical-marijuana-federal-research\/90347\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supports \u201cmore competition\u201d in cannabis research<\/a> but that he isn\u2019t inclined to grant permits to everyone who applied for permission to study the plant.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Cannabist, Sessions said in a response to Sen. Orrin Hatch \u2013 a Utah Republican who has sponsored a bill <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/conservative-us-senator-introduces-medical-cannabis-research-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to ease barriers to MMJ research<\/a> \u2013 that 26 applications are pending for permission to do marijuana research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it would be healthy to have some more competition in the supply but<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/sessions-backs-mj-research-competition-balks-expanding\/\">Sessions backs marijuana research, but balks at expanding it<\/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\/sessions-backs-mj-research-competition-balks-expanding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sessions backs marijuana research, but balks at expanding it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he supports \u201cmore competition\u201d in cannabis research but that he isn\u2019t inclined to grant permits to everyone who applied for permission to study the plant. According to The Cannabist, Sessions said in a response to Sen.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/18\/sessions-backs-marijuana-research-but-balks-at-expanding-it\/\">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":[4,861,10,1203,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20350"}],"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=20350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20351,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20350\/revisions\/20351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}