{"id":43690,"date":"2020-07-21T12:09:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T20:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/massachusetts-eyes-end-of-medical-marijuana-vertical-integration\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T21:45:25","slug":"massachusetts-eyes-end-of-medical-marijuana-vertical-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/massachusetts-eyes-end-of-medical-marijuana-vertical-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts eyes end of medical marijuana vertical integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Regulators in Massachusetts are considering eliminating the vertical-integration requirement for medical cannabis operators, a move that would open up the industry to stand-alone operations that would cost less to launch. Dispensaries in the state currently are required to cultivate and process most of the medical marijuana they sell, but they can buy limited amounts from [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/massachusetts-eyes-ending-mandate-for-medical-marijuana-vertical-integration\/\">Massachusetts eyes end of medical marijuana vertical integration<\/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-eyes-ending-mandate-for-medical-marijuana-vertical-integration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts eyes end of medical marijuana vertical integration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulators in Massachusetts are considering eliminating the vertical-integration requirement for medical cannabis operators, a move that would open up the industry to stand-alone operations that would cost less to launch. Dispensaries in the state currently are required to cultivate and process most of the medical marijuana they sell, but they<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/massachusetts-eyes-end-of-medical-marijuana-vertical-integration\/\">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":[9662,8940,6,3379,9663,9112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43690"}],"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=43690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43691,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43690\/revisions\/43691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}