{"id":20475,"date":"2017-10-23T04:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/north-dakota-tobacco-shop-owner-faces-criminal-cbd-charges\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:44:45","slug":"north-dakota-tobacco-shop-owner-faces-criminal-cbd-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/north-dakota-tobacco-shop-owner-faces-criminal-cbd-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota tobacco shop owner faces criminal CBD charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A North Dakota tobacco shop owner faces criminal charges for selling CBD products, a case that could test the state\u2019s definition of the cannabinoid.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Falesteni Abuhamda, the owner of two Tobacco Depot stores, tried unsuccessfully to have his case dismissed by a judge, arguing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willistonherald.com\/news\/judge-won-t-drop-charges-against-mckenzie-county-vape-shop\/article_0acafa62-b53e-11e7-8a0c-f39a34a822f5.html\">the CBD he was selling was legal<\/a>, according to the Williston Herald. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Abuhamda argued that the CBD was derived from hemp stalks, which are legal to process in North Dakota, and not hemp flower, which is not legal to process.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>North Dakota allows hemp growing, but only for seed and fiber.<\/p>\n<p>But<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/north-dakota-tobacco-shop-owner-faces-criminal-cbd-charges\/\">North Dakota tobacco shop owner faces criminal CBD charges<\/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\/north-dakota-tobacco-shop-owner-faces-criminal-cbd-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Dakota tobacco shop owner faces criminal CBD charges<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A North Dakota tobacco shop owner faces criminal charges for selling CBD products, a case that could test the state\u2019s definition of the cannabinoid. Falesteni Abuhamda, the owner of two Tobacco Depot stores, tried unsuccessfully to have his case dismissed by a judge, arguing that the CBD he was selling<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/north-dakota-tobacco-shop-owner-faces-criminal-cbd-charges\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,136,2043,596],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20475"}],"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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20476,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20475\/revisions\/20476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}