{"id":7732,"date":"2017-09-14T20:38:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T20:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2787655&amp;preview_id=2787655"},"modified":"2017-09-14T20:38:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T20:38:53","slug":"uruguay-setting-up-dedicated-cannabis-dispensaries-after-banks-scare-off-pharmacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/uruguay-setting-up-dedicated-cannabis-dispensaries-after-banks-scare-off-pharmacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay setting up dedicated cannabis dispensaries after banks scare off pharmacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/uruguay-setting-up-dedicated-cannabis-dispensaries-after-banks-scare-off-pharmacies\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay \u2014 Uruguay\u2019s government announced Wednesday that it is changing its retail system for legalized marijuana because banks are making it difficult for pharmacies to sell cannabis as planned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/08\/21\/uruguay-marijuana-sales-banks\/86465\/\">Banks are refusing to deal with companies linked to cannabis<\/a> in order to follow international financial laws that ban receiving money tied to the drug, pharmacists and officials said.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid the problems faced by pharmacies, Uruguay will set up shops to sell marijuana for cash, said government official Juan Andres Roballo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/07\/18\/uruguay-marijuana-pharmacies-sales\/83968\/\">In July, marijuana went on sale<\/a> at 16 pharmacies under a 2013 law that made Uruguay the first nation to legalize a cannabis market covering the entire chain from plants to purchase. Since then, at least three pharmacies have decided not to sell cannabis after warnings by banks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the rest of this story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/09\/14\/uruguay-marijuana-dispensaries-banks\/88071\/\">TheCannabist.co<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Uruguay&#8217;s government announced it is changing its retail system for legalized marijuana because banks have made it difficult for pharmacies to sell cannabis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6913,5062,7075,6813,77,5667,9,6833,5019,7319,1,3,132,61,1736],"tags":[6914,5063,7077,6818,2655,5673,6835,5022,7320,2710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}