{"id":162505,"date":"2019-01-18T14:44:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=162505"},"modified":"2019-01-18T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T20:44:27","slug":"medical-marijuana-cards-being-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=162505","title":{"rendered":"Medical marijuana cards being issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><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=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marijuana-medicine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marijuana-medicine-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marijuana-medicine-233x175.jpg 233w, https:\/\/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 has begun issuing medical marijuana cards to patients and caregivers, after nearly two years of work implementing a distribution system for the drug approved by voters in November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>State Medical Marijuana Director Jason Wahl says it could become available in eastern North Dakota within a few weeks, with dispensaries operating statewide by early fall.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Department has been working on the system since lawmakers crafted a law in 2017 allowing the use of medical marijuana for 17 medical conditions, along with terminal illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The state this week issued 70 cards, mostly for patients. Some went to designated caregivers, which are people who help patients, such as a family friend.<\/p>\n<p>The state estimates that as many as 4,000 North Dakotans eventually will legally be using the drug.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota has begun issuing medical marijuana cards to patients and caregivers, after nearly two years of work implementing a distribution system for the drug approved by voters in November 2016. State Medical Marijuana Director Jason Wahl says it could become available in eastern North Dakota [&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-162505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162506,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162505\/revisions\/162506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}