{"id":20477,"date":"2017-10-23T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/chart-new-york-medical-marijuana-patient-counts-surge-183-but-challenges-remain-for-businesses\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:44:46","slug":"chart-new-york-medical-marijuana-patient-counts-surge-183-but-challenges-remain-for-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/chart-new-york-medical-marijuana-patient-counts-surge-183-but-challenges-remain-for-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart: New York medical marijuana patient counts surge 183%, but challenges remain for businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Eli McVey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The number of medical cannabis patients in New York has nearly tripled\u00a0this year, driven by the addition of chronic pain as a qualifying condition and a series of changes aimed at increasing the viability of the state\u2019s medical marijuana program.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-77353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The surge has helped buoy New York\u2019s existing MMJ businesses, but the industry still faces some significant headwinds \u2013 including the state\u2019s plan to double the number of licensed companies.<\/p>\n<p>Since the end of 2016, patient counts have grown by 20,000 to eclipse the 33,000 mark as of the end of September, which amounts to<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/chart-new-york-medical-marijuana-patient-counts-surge-183-challenges-remain-businesses\/\">Chart: New York medical marijuana patient counts surge 183%, but challenges remain for businesses<\/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\/chart-new-york-medical-marijuana-patient-counts-surge-183-challenges-remain-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chart: New York medical marijuana patient counts surge 183%, but challenges remain for businesses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eli McVey The number of medical cannabis patients in New York has nearly tripled\u00a0this year, driven by the addition of chronic pain as a qualifying condition and a series of changes aimed at increasing the viability of the state\u2019s medical marijuana program. The surge has helped buoy New York\u2019s<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/chart-new-york-medical-marijuana-patient-counts-surge-183-but-challenges-remain-for-businesses\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,245,2091,2092,294,2093,972,2094,2095,247],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20477"}],"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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20478,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20477\/revisions\/20478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}