{"id":30965,"date":"2018-11-29T03:30:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T11:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/challenges-and-controversy-swirl-around-marijuana-social-equity-programs-in-california\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T20:55:24","slug":"challenges-and-controversy-swirl-around-marijuana-social-equity-programs-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/challenges-and-controversy-swirl-around-marijuana-social-equity-programs-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges \u2013 and controversy \u2013 swirl around marijuana social equity programs in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to reverse the fallout from the war on drugs, California is hoping to bring more minorities and economically disadvantaged individuals into the state\u2019s cannabis industry through so-called social equity programs. The new initiatives are generating high hopes among supporters \u2013 and harsh criticism from marijuana industry insiders who believe the programs have [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/controversy-marijuana-social-equity-programs-california\/\">Challenges \u2013 and controversy \u2013 swirl around marijuana social equity programs in California<\/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\/controversy-marijuana-social-equity-programs-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">Challenges \u2013 and controversy \u2013 swirl around marijuana social equity programs in California<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to reverse the fallout from the war on drugs, California is hoping to bring more minorities and economically disadvantaged individuals into the state\u2019s cannabis industry through so-called social equity programs. The new initiatives are generating high hopes among supporters \u2013 and harsh criticism from marijuana industry insiders<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/challenges-and-controversy-swirl-around-marijuana-social-equity-programs-in-california\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1980,191,28,18,4166,195],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30965"}],"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\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30966,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30965\/revisions\/30966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}