{"id":20617,"date":"2017-10-27T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/arizona-recreational-cannabis-foe-indicted-in-national-opioid-plot\/"},"modified":"2017-10-27T12:51:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T20:51:31","slug":"arizona-recreational-cannabis-foe-indicted-in-national-opioid-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/arizona-recreational-cannabis-foe-indicted-in-national-opioid-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona recreational cannabis foe indicted in national opioid plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The founder of a company that contributed <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/pharma-company-fighting-az-rec-motivated-to-protect-market-share\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$500,000 to help defeat<\/a> recreational marijuana legalization in Arizona last year now faces fraud and racketeering charges from federal authorities who accuse him of\u00a0pushing prescriptions of powerful painkillers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop ae-exclude\">\n<div id=\"desktop-300x600_300x250\" class=\"ad gpt ae-exclude\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4145\/fbn\/politics_4__container__\">The charges against Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor came on the same day that President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/26\/us\/politics\/trump-opioid-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nationwide public health emergency<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"related\" \/>\n<div class=\"related\">It follows indictments against the company\u2019s former CEO and other executives and managers on allegations<\/div>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/arizona-recreational-marijuana-foe-indicted-national-opioid-conspiracy\/\">Arizona recreational cannabis foe indicted in national opioid plot<\/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\/arizona-recreational-marijuana-foe-indicted-national-opioid-conspiracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona recreational cannabis foe indicted in national opioid plot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of a company that contributed $500,000 to help defeat recreational marijuana legalization in Arizona last year now faces fraud and racketeering charges from federal authorities who accuse him of\u00a0pushing prescriptions of powerful painkillers. The charges against Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor came on the same day that President<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/arizona-recreational-cannabis-foe-indicted-in-national-opioid-plot\/\">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":[601,4,2157],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617"}],"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=20617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20618,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617\/revisions\/20618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}