{"id":20471,"date":"2017-10-23T10:20:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T18:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/rhode-island-governor-may-renew-bid-to-add-mmj-dispensaries\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:44:45","slug":"rhode-island-governor-may-renew-bid-to-add-mmj-dispensaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/rhode-island-governor-may-renew-bid-to-add-mmj-dispensaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island governor may renew bid to add MMJ dispensaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>While saying she\u2019s \u201cnot in a rush\u201d to see Rhode Island <a href=\"http:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/news\/20171022\/political-scene-journal-talks-to-governor-raimondo-on-issues-ranging-from-pawsox-to-crumbling-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalize recreational marijuana<\/a>, Gov. Gina Raimondo may again seek an expansion of medical cannabis businesses in the state.<\/p>\n<p>A more pressing need to\u00a0Raimondo is giving medical marijuana patients \u201caccess to the medicine that they need,\u201d the Journal reported, and she\u2019s contemplating asking the legislature in 2018 to increase Rhode Island\u2019s MMJ dispensaries, which currently number three.<\/p>\n<p>The governor did just that in 2017 when she <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/rhode-island-gov-wants-triple-number-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed a proposal<\/a>\u00a0that would have effectively tripled the number of dispensaries by licensing three more MMJ companies and<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/rhode-island-gov-may-renew-bid-add-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\/\">Rhode Island governor may renew bid to add MMJ dispensaries<\/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\/rhode-island-gov-may-renew-bid-add-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhode Island governor may renew bid to add MMJ dispensaries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While saying she\u2019s \u201cnot in a rush\u201d to see Rhode Island legalize recreational marijuana, Gov. Gina Raimondo may again seek an expansion of medical cannabis businesses in the state. A more pressing need to\u00a0Raimondo is giving medical marijuana patients \u201caccess to the medicine that they need,\u201d the Journal reported, and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/rhode-island-governor-may-renew-bid-to-add-mmj-dispensaries\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,174,173,1402],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471"}],"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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20472,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471\/revisions\/20472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}