{"id":9103,"date":"2020-03-17T20:53:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/03\/17\/cannabis-dispensaries-are-essential-businesses-in-san-jose-during-coronavirus-lockdown-city-says\/134732\/"},"modified":"2020-03-17T20:53:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:53:54","slug":"cannabis-dispensaries-are-essential-businesses-in-san-jose-during-coronavirus-lockdown-city-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/cannabis-dispensaries-are-essential-businesses-in-san-jose-during-coronavirus-lockdown-city-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis dispensaries are &#8216;essential&#8217; businesses in San Jose during coronavirus lockdown, city says"},"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\/cannabis-dispensaries-are-essential-businesses-in-san-jose-during-coronavirus-lockdown-city-says\/\" 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\/SJM-L-SVCHATJO-QA-0216-14-1-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cannabis-dispensaries-are-essential-businesses-in-san-jose-during-coronavirus-lockdown-city-says.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cannabis-dispensaries-are-essential-businesses-in-san-jose-during-coronavirus-lockdown-city-says-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\/03\/17\/cannabis-dispensaries-are-essential-businesses-in-san-jose-during-coronavirus-lockdown-city-says\/134732\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"134732\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 Dispensaries and licensed cannabis companies can remain open through the shelter-in-place order issued by Santa Clara and six other counties, the city said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>So long as they practice social distancing measures, dispensaries are considered \u201cessential\u201d businesses, confirmed city spokesperson Rosario Neaves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our case in the city, we\u2019re considering medical cannabis a healthcare operation, as long as they comply with the social distancing requirements,\u201d Neaves said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/03\/17\/coronavirus-cannabis-dispensaries-are-essential-businesses-in-san-jose-city-says\/\">Read the rest of this story on MercuryNews.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 Dispensaries and licensed cannabis companies can remain open through the shelter-in-place order issued by Santa Clara and six other counties, the city said Tuesday. So long as they practice social distancing measures, dispensaries are considered \u201cessential\u201d businesses, confirmed city spokesperson Rosario Neaves. \u201cIn our case in the city, we\u2019re considering medical cannabis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,8226,1547,6892,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,8227,4115,6893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103"}],"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=9103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}