{"id":20902,"date":"2017-11-06T03:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T11:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/06\/chart-medical-marijuana-patient-counts-surging-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2017-11-06T12:35:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T20:35:49","slug":"chart-medical-marijuana-patient-counts-surging-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/06\/chart-medical-marijuana-patient-counts-surging-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart: Medical marijuana patient counts surging in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Eli McVey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite a shaky rollout, Florida\u2019s full-fledged medical marijuana industry is off to an explosive start.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30,000 patients have enrolled in the MMJ program since June \u2013 a 183% increase \u2013 and total patient counts will soon eclipse 50,000.<span id=\"more-78417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know about the situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seventy-one percent of Florida voters <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/election-updates-live-coverage-of-marijuana-measures-across-the-country\/\">approved Amendment 2<\/a> last November, a ballot initiative authorizing a full-fledged MMJ program in the state. It builds on a previous program that was mainly limited to CBD-based medicine.<\/li>\n<li>After struggling to reach a deal regarding rules to govern the<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/chart-medical-marijuana-patient-counts-surging-florida\/\">Chart: Medical marijuana patient counts surging in Florida<\/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-medical-marijuana-patient-counts-surging-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chart: Medical marijuana patient counts surging in Florida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eli McVey Despite a shaky rollout, Florida\u2019s full-fledged medical marijuana industry is off to an explosive start. More than 30,000 patients have enrolled in the MMJ program since June \u2013 a 183% increase \u2013 and total patient counts will soon eclipse 50,000. Here\u2019s what you need to know about<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/06\/chart-medical-marijuana-patient-counts-surging-in-florida\/\">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":[18,2281,46,981,2282,2283,245,247],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902"}],"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=20902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20903,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902\/revisions\/20903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}