{"id":39647,"date":"2019-11-21T03:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/11\/21\/federal-prosecutors-industry-probe-municipal-cannabis-agreements-in-massachusetts\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T12:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:46:26","slug":"federal-prosecutors-industry-probe-municipal-cannabis-agreements-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/11\/21\/federal-prosecutors-industry-probe-municipal-cannabis-agreements-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal prosecutors, industry probe municipal cannabis agreements in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts\u2019 mandated \u201chost community agreements\u201d (HCAs) between municipalities and marijuana businesses are under intense scrutiny, with cannabis companies complaining they are unfair and costly and federal prosecutors reportedly investigating their terms. The probe comes in the wake of a cannabis bribery case in Fall River and only a few months after the FBI announced in [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/massachusetts-recreational-cannabis-market-currently-held-back\/\">Federal prosecutors, industry probe municipal cannabis agreements in Massachusetts<\/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-recreational-cannabis-market-currently-held-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">Federal prosecutors, industry probe municipal cannabis agreements in Massachusetts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts\u2019 mandated \u201chost community agreements\u201d (HCAs) between municipalities and marijuana businesses are under intense scrutiny, with cannabis companies complaining they are unfair and costly and federal prosecutors reportedly investigating their terms. The probe comes in the wake of a cannabis bribery case in Fall River and only a few months<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/11\/21\/federal-prosecutors-industry-probe-municipal-cannabis-agreements-in-massachusetts\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9658,5100,8940,25,12648,9663],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39647"}],"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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39648,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39647\/revisions\/39648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}