{"id":8922,"date":"2020-02-14T01:36:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T01:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/02\/13\/bostons-would-be-pot-entrepreneurs-lie-in-wait-as-city-slow-walks-new-marijuana-licensing-board\/133698\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T01:36:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T01:36:49","slug":"bostons-would-be-pot-entrepreneurs-lie-in-wait-as-city-slow-walks-new-marijuana-licensing-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/bostons-would-be-pot-entrepreneurs-lie-in-wait-as-city-slow-walks-new-marijuana-licensing-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston&#8217;s would-be pot entrepreneurs lie in wait as city slow-walks new marijuana licensing board"},"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\/bostons-would-be-pot-entrepreneurs-lie-in-wait-as-city-slow-walks-new-marijuana-licensing-board\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Vaping_Lung_Damage_01248-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bostons-would-be-pot-entrepreneurs-lie-in-wait-as-city-slow-walks-new-marijuana-licensing-board.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bostons-would-be-pot-entrepreneurs-lie-in-wait-as-city-slow-walks-new-marijuana-licensing-board-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/02\/13\/bostons-would-be-pot-entrepreneurs-lie-in-wait-as-city-slow-walks-new-marijuana-licensing-board\/133698\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"133698\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two Boston entrepreneurs\u2019 plans to open the state\u2019s third independent testing laboratory to check the safety of cannabis products \u2014 including vape cartridges \u2014 are being slow-walked as the city works to roll out a brand new marijuana licensing board amid an already slow-moving pot industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a dire need for marijuana testing and that\u2019s where we are putting 99 percent of our attention \u2026 but we need to make sure we don\u2019t get bogged down in the politics,\u201d said Dimitri Pelekoudas, CEO of Assured Testing Laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>Pelekoudas and his partner Kris Nykbakken want to open a lab at 43 Freeport St. in Dorchester that would test the safety of marijuana flower, products and concentrates that can contain dangerous solvents and chemicals. State law requires all legally sold marijuana products to be tested for potency and safety prior to sale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2020\/02\/13\/bostons-would-be-pot-entrepreneurs-lie-in-wait-as-city-slow-walks-new-marijuana-licensing-board\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Boston entrepreneurs\u2019 plans to open the state\u2019s third independent testing laboratory to check the safety of cannabis products \u2014 including vape cartridges \u2014 are being slow-walked as the city works to roll out a brand new marijuana licensing board amid an already slow-moving pot industry. \u201cThere is a dire need for marijuana testing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[284,5062,8244,8245,528,8232,9,1407,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[2862,5063,8246,8247,3102,8234,3976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922"}],"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=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}