{"id":20621,"date":"2017-10-27T02:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/week-in-review-massachusetts-mmj-upgrades-wa-tracking-issues-possible-rhode-island-expansion\/"},"modified":"2017-10-27T12:51:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T20:51:31","slug":"week-in-review-massachusetts-mmj-upgrades-wa-tracking-issues-possible-rhode-island-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/week-in-review-massachusetts-mmj-upgrades-wa-tracking-issues-possible-rhode-island-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review: Massachusetts\u2019 MMJ upgrades, WA tracking issues &amp; possible Rhode Island expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Omar Sacirbey, Bart Schaneman and John Schroyer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts aims to improve its medical marijuana program, Washington state cannabis companies could find themselves without a traceability system, and Rhode Island may try to expand its MMJ footprint.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry over the past week.<span id=\"more-77849\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits of clones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts health department <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/massachusetts-moves-ease-medical-cannabis-access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resumed efforts to make changes<\/a> to the state\u2019s medical cannabis program that are mostly regarded as improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most important change of the four proposals would eliminate a restriction that vertically integrated MMJ businesses can<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/week-review-massachusetts-mmj-upgrades-wa-tracking-issues-possible-rhode-island-expansion\/\">Week in Review: Massachusetts\u2019 MMJ upgrades, WA tracking issues &amp; possible Rhode Island expansion<\/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\/week-review-massachusetts-mmj-upgrades-wa-tracking-issues-possible-rhode-island-expansion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Week in Review: Massachusetts\u2019 MMJ upgrades, WA tracking issues &amp; possible Rhode Island expansion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omar Sacirbey, Bart Schaneman and John Schroyer Massachusetts aims to improve its medical marijuana program, Washington state cannabis companies could find themselves without a traceability system, and Rhode Island may try to expand its MMJ footprint. Here\u2019s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry over<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/week-in-review-massachusetts-mmj-upgrades-wa-tracking-issues-possible-rhode-island-expansion\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,172,18,174,6,2160,173,1402,2161,471],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20621"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20622,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20621\/revisions\/20622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}