{"id":151131,"date":"2018-08-10T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T21:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=151131"},"modified":"2018-08-10T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T21:24:18","slug":"19-applications-medical-marijuana-dispensaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=151131","title":{"rendered":"19 applications, medical marijuana dispensaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-147926\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marijuana-medicine-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marijuana-medicine-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marijuana-medicine-768x577.jpg 768w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marijuana-medicine-233x175.jpg 233w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marijuana-medicine.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota&#8217;s health department says it has received 19 applications to open medical marijuana dispensaries in Fargo and Bismarck.<\/p>\n<p>The health department says eight of the applications are for the Bismarck\/Mandan area and 11 are for Fargo. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wday.com\/news\/government-and-politics\/4483971-north-dakota-receives-19-medical-marijuana-dispensary\">WDAY-TV<\/a> reports the application period for those two regions ended Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Health department officials expect to select the dispensaries around Sept. 21 and the plan is to have the businesses open by mid-2019.<\/p>\n<p>Voters legalized medical marijuana in 2016. The health department designated eight zones across the state where the dispensaries can operate and the application process is being staggered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota&#8217;s health department says it has received 19 applications to open medical marijuana dispensaries in Fargo and Bismarck. The health department says eight of the applications are for the Bismarck\/Mandan area and 11 are for Fargo. WDAY-TV reports the application period for those two regions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151132,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151131\/revisions\/151132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}