{"id":15953,"date":"2018-03-07T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=15953"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:21:08","slug":"america-is-giving-away-the-30-billion-medical-marijuana-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/america-is-giving-away-the-30-billion-medical-marijuana-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"America Is Giving Away the $30 Billion Medical Marijuana Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.bwbx.io\/images\/users\/iqjWHBFdfxIU\/iZZVF_mYvVws\/v0\/1200x630.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>#News420<br \/>\nMuch like we&#8217;ve given away so many industries we once led the world in&#8230;only this time, we&#8217;re not even gonna bother being a leader first.<br \/>\nNice job, USA. Way to compete.<br \/>\n #mmj<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;America Is Giving Away the $30 Billion Medical Marijuana Industry&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/buff.ly\/2FoJPWt\">https:\/\/buff.ly\/2FoJPWt<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#News420 Much like we&#8217;ve given away so many industries we once led the world in&#8230;only this time, we&#8217;re not even gonna bother being a leader first. Nice job, USA. Way to compete. #mmj The Article &#8216;America Is Giving Away the $30 Billion Medical Marijuana Industry&#8217; originally appeared on https:\/\/buff.ly\/2FoJPWt Jamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-15953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14522,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/medical-marijuana-how-it-can-spark-the-budding-cannabis-industry-zdnet\/","url_meta":{"origin":15953,"position":0},"title":"Medical marijuana: How IT can spark the budding cannabis industry | ZDNet","date":"October 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"#News420 This fast-growing but difficult-to-navigate vertical needs IT providers. 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