{"id":20528,"date":"2017-10-25T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/25\/massachusetts-moves-to-ease-medical-cannabis-access\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:38:59","slug":"massachusetts-moves-to-ease-medical-cannabis-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/25\/massachusetts-moves-to-ease-medical-cannabis-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts moves to ease medical cannabis access"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Medical marijuana companies in Massachusetts could see a hike in business once regulators\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2017\/10\/24\/state-move-forward-with-new-medical-marijuana-rules\/wYyKeN0jzJQtjwsPQAAvkK\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">implement several improvements<\/a>\u00a0to the state\u2019s MMJ program.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health proposed the changes in September 2016 but delayed acting on them amid concerns about how recreational marijuana legalization would affect the medical cannabis program, The Boston Globe reported.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Officials hope the changes will be in place by the end of the year. The changes must first be submitted to the state Public Health Council for formal approval, on Nov. 8, and then to the Secretary of the<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/massachusetts-moves-ease-medical-cannabis-access\/\">Massachusetts moves to ease medical cannabis access<\/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\/massachusetts-moves-ease-medical-cannabis-access\/\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts moves to ease medical cannabis access<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical marijuana companies in Massachusetts could see a hike in business once regulators\u00a0implement several improvements\u00a0to the state\u2019s MMJ program. The Department of Health proposed the changes in September 2016 but delayed acting on them amid concerns about how recreational marijuana legalization would affect the medical cannabis program, The Boston Globe<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/25\/massachusetts-moves-to-ease-medical-cannabis-access\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,2114,25,6,629,2115,2116,162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20529,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions\/20529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}